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CVE-2022-35691

Status: ModifiedMedium (5.5)—

Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 22.002.20212 (and earlier) and 20.005.30381 (and earlier) are affected by a NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve an application denial-of-service in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file.

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Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (4)

Adobe — AcrobatAdobe — Acrobat DCAdobe — Acrobat ReaderAdobe — Acrobat Reader DC

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