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APSB21-55: Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and macOS (CVE-2021-35982)

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APSB21-55: Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and macOS (CVE-2021-35982)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
09/29/2021
Created
03/29/2022
Added
03/28/2022
Modified
04/29/2022

Description

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

Solution(s)

  • adobe-acrobat-dc-upgrade-21-007-20091-macosx
  • adobe-acrobat-dc-upgrade-21-007-20091-windows
  • adobe-acrobat-reader-dc-upgrade-21-007-20091-macosx
  • adobe-acrobat-reader-dc-upgrade-21-007-20091-windows
  • adobe-acrobat-reader-upgrade-2017-011-30202-macosx
  • adobe-acrobat-reader-upgrade-2017-011-30202-windows
  • adobe-acrobat-reader-upgrade-2020-004-30015-macosx
  • adobe-acrobat-reader-upgrade-2020-004-30015-windows
  • adobe-acrobat-upgrade-2017-011-30202-macosx
  • adobe-acrobat-upgrade-2017-011-30202-windows
  • adobe-acrobat-upgrade-2020-004-30015-macosx
  • adobe-acrobat-upgrade-2020-004-30015-windows

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