Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-28256

Medium

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 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0248 85.6th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-28256 is a medium-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Apple Macos. Its CVSS base score is 5.5 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 14.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Acrobat Reader DC version 22.001.2011x (and earlier), 20.005.3033x (and earlier) and 17.012.3022x (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR.…

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Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

CWE(s)
CWE-416

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

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SI-16 Memory Protection
addresses: CWE-416

Use-after-free exploits that achieve arbitrary code execution are blocked or significantly hardened by non-executable pages and ASLR.

References