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CVE-2022-28267:
Adobe Acrobat Reader Continuous vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2022-28267 is a security vulnerability affecting Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and macOS. The vulnerability was disclosed on April 12, 2022, and Adobe released security updates to address this issue along with multiple other vulnerabilities (Adobe Security, Rapid7).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified as an Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) with a Memory Leak component. It has been assigned a CVSS v2.0 score of 4.3 (Medium) and is considered an Important severity issue (Adobe Security).
Impact
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability, along with other vulnerabilities patched in the same update, could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution, memory leak, security feature bypass, and privilege escalation (Rapid7).
Mitigation and workarounds
Adobe has released security updates to address this vulnerability. Users are advised to update to the latest version of Adobe Acrobat and Reader (Adobe Security).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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