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Adobe Reader < 17.012.30227 / 20.005.30331 / 22.001.20112 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB22-16)

high Nessus Plugin ID 159657

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Synopsis

The version of Adobe Reader installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

Description

The version of Adobe Reader installed on the remote Windows host is a version prior to 17.012.30227, 20.005.30331, or 22.001.20112. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

 - Acrobat Reader DC versions 20.001.20085 (and earlier), 20.005.3031x (and earlier) and 17.012.30205 (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. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2022-24101)

 - Acrobat Reader DC versions 20.001.20085 (and earlier), 20.005.3031x (and earlier) and 17.012.30205 (and earlier) are affected by a use-after-free vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2022-24102, CVE-2022-24103, CVE-2022-24104)

 - 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 fonts that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2022-27785, CVE-2022-27786, CVE-2022-27790)

 - Acrobat Reader DC versions 22.001.20085 (and earlier), 20.005.3031x (and earlier) and 17.012.30205 (and earlier) are affected by an out-of-bounds write vulnerability that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2022-27787, CVE-2022-27788, CVE-2022-27792, CVE-2022-27793, CVE-2022-27798, CVE-2022-28236)

 - 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 the acroform event that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2022-27789, CVE-2022-27795, CVE-2022-27796, CVE-2022-27799, CVE-2022-28230, CVE-2022-28235)

 - Acrobat Reader DC versions 22.001.20085 (and earlier), 20.005.3031x (and earlier) and 17.012.30205 (and earlier) is affected by a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability due to insecure processing of a font, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation requires user interaction in that a victim must open a crafted .pdf file (CVE-2022-27791)

 - 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 context of the current user. Exploitation requires user interaction in that a victim must open a crafted .pdf file (CVE-2022-27794)

 - 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 annotations that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2022-27797, CVE-2022-27800, CVE-2022-27801, CVE-2022-27802, CVE-2022-28233, CVE-2022-28237, CVE-2022-28238)

 - Acrobat Reader DC versions 22.001.20085 (and earlier), 20.005.3031x (and earlier) and 17.012.30205 (and earlier) is affected by an out-of-bounds read vulnerability when processing a doc object, which could result in a read past the end of an allocated memory structure. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2022-28231)

 - 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 the collab object that could result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2022-28232)

 - Acrobat Reader DC versions 22.001.20085 (and earlier), 20.005.3031x (and earlier) and 17.012.30205 (and earlier) is affected by a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability due to insecure handling of a crafted .pdf file, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.
 Exploitation requires user interaction in that a victim must open a crafted .pdf file (CVE-2022-28234)

 - Acrobat Reader DC version 22.001.2011x (and earlier), 20.005.3033x (and earlier) and 17.012.3022x (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 execute code in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2022-28239, CVE-2022-28241, CVE-2022-28243)

 - 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 result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2022-28240, CVE-2022-28242)

 - Acrobat Reader DC versions 22.001.20085 (and earlier), 20.005.3031x (and earlier) and 17.012.30205 (and earlier) is affected by a violation of secure design principles through bypassing the content security policy, which could result in an attacker sending arbitrarily configured requests to the cross-origin attack target domain. Exploitation requires user interaction in which the victim needs to access a crafted PDF file on an attacker's server. (CVE-2022-28244)

 - Acrobat Reader DC version 22.001.2011x (and earlier), 20.005.3033x (and earlier) and 17.012.3022x (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. (CVE-2022-28245, CVE-2022-28246, CVE-2022-28248, CVE-2022-28249, CVE-2022-28251, CVE-2022-28252, CVE-2022-28253, CVE-2022-28254, CVE-2022-28255, CVE-2022-28257, CVE-2022-28258, CVE-2022-28259, CVE-2022-28260, CVE-2022-28261, CVE-2022-28262, CVE-2022-28263, CVE-2022-28264, CVE-2022-28265, CVE-2022-28266, CVE-2022-28267)

 - Acrobat Reader DC version 22.001.2011x (and earlier), 20.005.3033x (and earlier) and 17.012.3022x (and earlier) are affected by an uncontrolled search path vulnerability that could lead to local privilege escalation. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must run the uninstaller with Admin privileges. (CVE-2022-28247)

 - 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. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2022-28250, CVE-2022-28256)

 - Acrobat Reader DC versions 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 that could lead to disclosure of sensitive memory. 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. (CVE-2022-28268)

 - 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. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2022-28269)

 - Acrobat Pro 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. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2022-28837)

 - Acrobat Acrobat Pro 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 result in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2022-28838)

 - Adobe Acrobat Reader version 22.001.20085 (and earlier), 20.005.30314 (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 execute code in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2022-35672)

 - Out-of-bounds Write (CWE-787) potentially leading to Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-44512, CVE-2022-44513)

 - Use After Free (CWE-416) potentially leading to Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2022-44514, CVE-2022-44518, CVE-2022-44520)

 - Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) potentially leading to Memory leak (CVE-2022-44515, CVE-2022-44516, CVE-2022-44517)

 - Use After Free (CWE-416) potentially leading to Memory leak (CVE-2022-44519)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Adobe Reader version 17.012.30227 / 20.005.30331 / 22.001.20112 or later.

See Also

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

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 159657

File Name: adobe_reader_apsb22-16.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 4/12/2022

Updated: 10/21/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-28838

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-35672

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:adobe:acrobat_reader

Required KB Items: SMB/Registry/Enumerated, installed_sw/Adobe Reader

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/12/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/11/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-24101, CVE-2022-24102, CVE-2022-24103, CVE-2022-24104, CVE-2022-27785, CVE-2022-27786, CVE-2022-27787, CVE-2022-27788, CVE-2022-27789, CVE-2022-27790, CVE-2022-27791, CVE-2022-27792, CVE-2022-27793, CVE-2022-27794, CVE-2022-27795, CVE-2022-27796, CVE-2022-27797, CVE-2022-27798, CVE-2022-27799, CVE-2022-27800, CVE-2022-27801, CVE-2022-27802, CVE-2022-28230, CVE-2022-28231, CVE-2022-28232, CVE-2022-28233, CVE-2022-28234, CVE-2022-28235, CVE-2022-28236, CVE-2022-28237, CVE-2022-28238, CVE-2022-28239, CVE-2022-28240, CVE-2022-28241, CVE-2022-28242, CVE-2022-28243, CVE-2022-28244, CVE-2022-28245, CVE-2022-28246, CVE-2022-28247, CVE-2022-28248, CVE-2022-28249, CVE-2022-28250, CVE-2022-28251, CVE-2022-28252, CVE-2022-28253, CVE-2022-28254, CVE-2022-28255, CVE-2022-28256, CVE-2022-28257, CVE-2022-28258, CVE-2022-28259, CVE-2022-28260, CVE-2022-28261, CVE-2022-28262, CVE-2022-28263, CVE-2022-28264, CVE-2022-28265, CVE-2022-28266, CVE-2022-28267, CVE-2022-28268, CVE-2022-28269, CVE-2022-28837, CVE-2022-28838, CVE-2022-35672, CVE-2022-44512, CVE-2022-44513, CVE-2022-44514, CVE-2022-44515, CVE-2022-44516, CVE-2022-44517, CVE-2022-44518, CVE-2022-44519, CVE-2022-44520

CWE: 121, 122, 125, 353, 416, 657, 787, 824

IAVA: 2022-A-0152-S