CVE-2022-28261: Adobe Acrobat

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat: from 17.011.30059, up to and including 17.012.30205; from 20.001.30005, up to and including 20.005.30314; from 20.001.30005, up to and including 20.005.30311
• Adobe Acrobat DC: from 15.008.20082, up to and including 22.001.20085
• Adobe Acrobat Reader: from 17.011.30059, up to and including 17.012.30205; from 20.001.30005, up to and including 20.005.30314; from 20.001.30005, up to and including 20.005.30311
• Adobe Acrobat Reader DC: from 15.008.20082, up to and including 22.001.20085

Published 2022-05-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.