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🛡️ CVE-2022-24101 — acrobat

🟢 CVSS 3.3 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-416 NVD
3.3
CVSS Score
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Description

Acrobat Reader DC versions 20.001.20085 (and earlier), 20.005.3031x (and earlier) and 17.012.30205 (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity none, availability none.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: Low — limited, and the attacker does not choose what is affected.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-24101 is classified as CWE-416: Use After Free. Memory is used after being released, so its contents may already belong to something else.

Affected software

CVE-2022-24101 is recorded against 4 packages.

  • acrobat (from 20.001.30005 up to 20.005.30311)
  • acrobat-dc (from 15.008.20082 up to 22.001.20085)
  • acrobat-reader (from 20.001.30005 up to 20.005.30311)
  • acrobat-reader-dc (from 15.008.20082 up to 22.001.20085)

Timeline and source

Published on 11 May 2022 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Other advisories for this package

acrobat has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-416: Use After Free) in other software:

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 3.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-416
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-05-11
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
acrobat 20.001.30005 20.005.30311
acrobat-dc 15.008.20082 22.001.20085
acrobat-reader 20.001.30005 20.005.30311
acrobat-reader-dc 15.008.20082 22.001.20085

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