CVE-2023-21612

Adobe Acrobat Reader Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions Privilege escalation

State: Published
Severity: 7.8 High
Published: Jan 18, 2023
Updated: Mar 5, 2025
Reserved: Dec 1, 2022

Description

Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 22.003.20282 (and earlier), 22.003.20281 (and earlier) and 20.005.30418 (and earlier) are affected by a Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions vulnerability that could result in privilege escalation in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.8 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	adobe

Weaknesses

CWE-379 Creation of Temporary File in Directory with Incorrect Permissions (CWE-379)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Acrobat ReaderAdobe	20.005.30418 and earlierAffected 22.003.20282 and earlierAffected 22.003.20281 and earlierAffected None and earlierAffected

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb23-01.html

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