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CVE-2022-27799

Adobe Acrobat Reader DC AcroForm Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

High7.8EPSS 18.8%
Published
Updated
Reserved
Assigned by
adobe

Description

Acrobat Reader DC versions 22.001.20085 (and earlier), 20.005.3031x (and earlier) and 17.012.30205 (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability in the processing of the acroform event 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.

Timeline

  1. ID reserved

    By adobe

  2. · 49 days later

    Published

  3. · 4 years later

    Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2022-27799, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
adobeCNA (assigner)3.0High7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVDNVD · Modified3.0High7.8CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
18.8% · top 2.7% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.

Weakness

Affected products

  • Adobe · Acrobat Reader

    • affected unspecified – ≤ 22.001.20085
    • affected unspecified – ≤ 20.005.3031x
    • affected unspecified – ≤ 17.012.30205
    • affected unspecified – ≤ None

References (1)

Sources

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