CVE-2022-44517

Acrobat Reader | Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125)

At a glance

Severity: MEDIUM 5.5
EPSS: EPSS 0.27 % · percentile 19 (2026-10-27)
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2024-12-18
Updated: 2024-12-19
Assigner: adobe
NVD status: Analyzed

Description

Acrobat Reader DC version 22.001.20085 (and earlier), 20.005.3031x (and earlier) and 17.012.30205 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability when parsing a crafted file, which could result in a read past the end of an allocated memory structure. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to bypass mitigations such as ASLR. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

Scores

Version	Score	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	adobe
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · psirt@adobe.com (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1	MEDIUM 5.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-125

European references

ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2022-47460
GCVE · GCVE-0-2022-44517

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* ≥ 17.011.30059 < 17.012.30229
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* ≥ 20.001.30002 < 20.005.30334
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_dc:*:*:*:*:continuous:*:*:* ≥ 22.001.20085 < 22.001.20117
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* ≥ 17.011.30059 < 17.012.30229
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* ≥ 20.001.30002 < 20.005.30334
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader_dc:*:*:*:*:continuous:*:*:* ≥ 22.001.20085 < 22.001.20117
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* ≥ 17.011.30059 < 17.012.30227
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* ≥ 20.001.30002 < 20.005.30331
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_dc:*:*:*:*:continuous:*:*:* ≥ 22.001.20085 < 22.001.20112
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* ≥ 17.011.30059 < 17.012.30227
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* ≥ 20.001.30002 < 20.005.30331
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader_dc:*:*:*:*:continuous:*:*:* ≥ 22.001.20085 < 22.001.20112

Affected products

Product	Versions
Adobe · Acrobat Reader	affected 0 ≤ 17.012.30205

References

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb22-16.html

Sources

Source	Licence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)	CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)	FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVD	ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds	Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD