🛡️ CVE-2022-24102 — acrobat

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-416 NVD
7.8
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 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.

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 high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-24102 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-2022-24102 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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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-416
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-05-11
Updated 2026-08-11
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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