Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-28269

Low

Published: 11 May 2022

Published
11 May 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3 3.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0118 79.1th percentile
Risk Priority 7 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-28269 is a low-severity Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Apple Macos. Its CVSS base score is 3.3 (Low).

Operationally, ranked in the top 20.9% 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) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability in the processing of Annotation objects that could result in a memory leak in the context of the current user.…

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

CWE(s)

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.

addresses: CWE-416

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

References