Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-27794

High

Published: 11 May 2022

Published
11 May 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0211 84.5th percentile
Risk Priority 17 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-27794 is a high-severity Access of Uninitialized Pointer (CWE-824) vulnerability in Apple Macos. Its CVSS base score is 7.8 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 15.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Acrobat Reader DC versions 22.001.20085 (and earlier), 20.005.3031x (and earlier) and 17.012.30205 (and earlier) is affected by the use of a variable that has not been initialized when processing of embedded fonts, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the…

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context of the current user. Exploitation requires user interaction in that a victim must open a crafted .pdf file

CWE(s)
CWE-824

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

adobe
acrobat dc
15.008.20082 — 22.001.20085
adobe
acrobat reader dc
15.008.20082 — 22.001.20085
adobe
acrobat
17.011.30059 — 17.012.30205 · 20.001.30005 — 20.005.30314 · 20.001.30005 — 20.005.30311
adobe
acrobat reader
17.011.30059 — 17.012.30205 · 20.001.30005 — 20.005.30314 · 20.001.30005 — 20.005.30311

Mitigating Controls

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

References