CVSS 3.1
7.3 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2021-28636
High (7.3) in adobe. EPSS 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Acrobat Reader DC versions 2021.005.20054 (and earlier), 2020.004.30005 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30197 (and earlier) are affected by an Uncontrolled Search Path Element vulnerability. An attacker with access to the victim's C:/ folder could leverage this vulnerability to achieve 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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 82% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-427
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- adobe:acrobat_dc
- adobe:acrobat_reader_dc