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CVE-2022-34233:
Adobe Acrobat Reader Continuous vulnerability analysis and mitigation
Overview
CVE-2022-34233 is a Use After Free vulnerability discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and macOS. The vulnerability was disclosed on July 12, 2022, and affects Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017 MUI (Classic Track) and related versions (NVD, Adobe Security).
Technical details
The vulnerability is classified with a CVSS score of 5.0 and has the following vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:N). This indicates a local attack vector with medium access complexity, requiring no authentication, and potentially resulting in complete confidentiality impact but no integrity or availability impact (Rapid7).
Impact
The vulnerability could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory and could potentially be leveraged by attackers to bypass security mitigations (NVD).
Mitigation and workarounds
Adobe has released security updates to address this vulnerability through the security bulletin APSB22-32. The fix was credited to Mat Powell of Trend Micro Zero Day Initiative and Kai Lu of Zscaler's ThreatLabz (Adobe Security).
Additional resources
Source: This report was generated using AI
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