CVE-2022-38450

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC XFA Parsing Stack Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

State
Published
Severity
7.8 High
Published
Oct 14, 2022
Updated
Apr 23, 2025
Reserved
Aug 18, 2022

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Description

Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 22.002.20212 (and earlier) and 20.005.30381 (and earlier) are affected by a Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.8 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hadobe

Weaknesses

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow (CWE-121)

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Acrobat ReaderAdobe
  • 20.005.30381 and earlierAffected
  • 22.002.20212 and earlierAffected
  • None and earlierAffected

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