Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-35982

High

Published: 29 September 2021

Published
29 September 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0031 54.4th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-35982 is a high-severity Uncontrolled Search Path Element (CWE-427) vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Dc. Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 45.6% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20060 (and earlier), 2020.004.30006 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30199 (and earlier) are affected by an Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability. A local attacker with non-administrative privileges can plant a malicious DLL to achieve arbitrary code execution in…

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the context of the current user via DLL hijacking. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction.

CWE(s)
CWE-427

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

adobe
acrobat dc
20.006.20034 — 21.005.20060 · 20.006.20034 — 21.005.20058 · 20.006.20034 — 21.005.20058
adobe
acrobat reader dc
20.006.20034 — 21.005.20060 · 20.004.30005 — 20.004.30006 · 17.011.30158 — 17.011.30199

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References