CVE-2022-28244 Adobe Acrobat Reader DC CSP Bypass Leads To Privilege Escalation

Medium 6.3 Published Updated

Attackers can bypass Content Security Policy in Adobe Acrobat Reader to send arbitrary cross-origin requests, leading to privilege escalation via crafted PDFs.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2022-28244?

CVE-2022-28244 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 11 May 2022. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-657

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-28244?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Dc, Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Acrobat Reader Dc.

How do I fix CVE-2022-28244?

No fix has been published for CVE-2022-28244 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2022-28244 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-28244 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Adobe Acrobat vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-j69f-2mqm-rh7p.

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