CVE-2022-28238: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Annotation Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

First published: Wed May 11 2022(Updated: )

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 annotations 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.

Credit: psirt@adobe.com

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