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Adobe Acrobat < 2017.011.30196 / 2020.001.30025 / 2021.001.20155 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB21-29)

2021-05-1100:00:00
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adobe acrobat
vulnerabilities
arbitrary code execution
out-of-bounds write
use after free
memory leak
cve-2021-21044
cve-2021-21038
cve-2021-21086
cve-2021-28562
cve-2021-28550
cve-2021-28553
cve-2021-28557
nessus scanner

CVSS2

9.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS3

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

8.1

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.409

Percentile

97.3%

The version of Adobe Acrobat installed on the remote Windows host is a version prior to 2017.011.30196, 2020.001.30025, or 2021.001.20155. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

  • Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by a memory corruption vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker 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. (CVE-2021-28561)

  • Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by a Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker 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. (CVE-2021-28560)

  • Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by an Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the PDFLibTool component. An unauthenticated attacker 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. (CVE-2021-28558)

  • Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by an Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to leak sensitive system information in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2021-28557)

  • Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by an Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to get access to sensitive information in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2021-28555)

  • Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by an Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in the PDFLibTool component. An unauthenticated attacker 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. (CVE-2021-28565)

  • Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by an Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability within the ImageTool component. An unauthenticated attacker 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. (CVE-2021-28564)

  • Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2020.013.20074 (and earlier), 2020.001.30018 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30188 (and earlier) are affected by an Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability when parsing a crafted jpeg file. An unauthenticated attacker 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. (CVE-2021-21038, CVE-2021-21044)

  • Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2020.013.20074 (and earlier), 2020.001.30018 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30188 (and earlier) are affected by an Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in the CoolType library.
    An unauthenticated attacker 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. (CVE-2021-21086)

  • Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by an Information Exposure vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to get access to restricted data stored within global variables and objects. (CVE-2021-28559)

  • Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by a Use After Free vulnerability when executing search queries through Javascript. An unauthenticated attacker 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. (CVE-2021-28562)

  • Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by a Use After Free vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker 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.
    (CVE-2021-28550)

  • Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and 2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by an Use After Free vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker 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.
    (CVE-2021-28553)

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

#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 70300
##
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
##

include('deprecated_nasl_level.inc');
include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(149380);
  script_version("1.14");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/09/12");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2021-21038",
    "CVE-2021-21044",
    "CVE-2021-21086",
    "CVE-2021-28550",
    "CVE-2021-28553",
    "CVE-2021-28555",
    "CVE-2021-28557",
    "CVE-2021-28558",
    "CVE-2021-28559",
    "CVE-2021-28560",
    "CVE-2021-28561",
    "CVE-2021-28562",
    "CVE-2021-28564",
    "CVE-2021-28565"
  );
  script_xref(name:"IAVA", value:"2021-A-0229-S");
  script_xref(name:"CISA-KNOWN-EXPLOITED", value:"2021/11/17");

  script_name(english:"Adobe Acrobat < 2017.011.30196 / 2020.001.30025 / 2021.001.20155 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB21-29)");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The version of Adobe Acrobat installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The version of Adobe Acrobat installed on the remote Windows host is a version prior to 2017.011.30196, 2020.001.30025,
or 2021.001.20155. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and
    2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by a memory corruption vulnerability. An unauthenticated
    attacker 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. (CVE-2021-28561)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and
    2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by a Heap-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability. An
    unauthenticated attacker 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. (CVE-2021-28560)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and
    2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by an Heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the PDFLibTool
    component. An unauthenticated attacker 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. (CVE-2021-28558)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and
    2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by an Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability. An unauthenticated
    attacker could leverage this vulnerability to leak sensitive system information in the context of the
    current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious
    file. (CVE-2021-28557)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and
    2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by an Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability. An unauthenticated
    attacker could leverage this vulnerability to get access to sensitive information in the context of the
    current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious
    file. (CVE-2021-28555)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and
    2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by an Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability in the PDFLibTool
    component. An unauthenticated attacker 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. (CVE-2021-28565)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and
    2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by an Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability within the ImageTool
    component. An unauthenticated attacker 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. (CVE-2021-28564)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2020.013.20074 (and earlier), 2020.001.30018 (and earlier) and
    2017.011.30188 (and earlier) are affected by an Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability when parsing a crafted
    jpeg file. An unauthenticated attacker 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. (CVE-2021-21038, CVE-2021-21044)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2020.013.20074 (and earlier), 2020.001.30018 (and earlier) and
    2017.011.30188 (and earlier) are affected by an Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in the CoolType library.
    An unauthenticated attacker 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. (CVE-2021-21086)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and
    2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by an Information Exposure vulnerability. An unauthenticated
    attacker could leverage this vulnerability to get access to restricted data stored within global variables
    and objects. (CVE-2021-28559)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and
    2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by a Use After Free vulnerability when executing search queries
    through Javascript. An unauthenticated attacker 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. (CVE-2021-28562)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and
    2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by a Use After Free vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker
    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.
    (CVE-2021-28550)

  - Acrobat Reader DC versions versions 2021.001.20150 (and earlier), 2020.001.30020 (and earlier) and
    2017.011.30194 (and earlier) are affected by an Use After Free vulnerability. An unauthenticated attacker
    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.
    (CVE-2021-28553)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version
number.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb21-29.html");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade to Adobe Acrobat version 2017.011.30196 / 2020.001.30025 / 2021.001.20155 or later.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"agent", value:"windows");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:H/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:H/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2021-28565");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploited_by_malware", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2021/02/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2021/05/11");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2021/05/11");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/a:adobe:acrobat");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"stig_severity", value:"I");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Windows");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2021-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("adobe_acrobat_installed.nasl");
  script_require_keys("SMB/Registry/Enumerated", "installed_sw/Adobe Acrobat");

  exit(0);
}

include('vcf_extras.inc');

get_kb_item_or_exit('SMB/Registry/Enumerated');
var app_info = vcf::get_app_info(app:'Adobe Acrobat', win_local:TRUE);

# vcf::adobe_reader::check_version_and_report will
# properly separate tracks when checking constraints.
# x.y.30zzz = DC Classic
# x.y.20zzz = DC Continuous
var constraints = [
  { 'min_version' : '17.8', 'max_version' : '17.011.30194', 'fixed_version' : '17.011.30196', 'track' : 'DC Classic' },
  { 'min_version' : '20.1', 'max_version' : '20.001.30020', 'fixed_version' : '20.001.30025', 'track' : 'DC Classic' },
  { 'min_version' : '15.7', 'max_version' : '21.001.20150', 'fixed_version' : '21.001.20155', 'track' : 'DC Continuous' }
];
vcf::adobe_acrobat::check_version_and_report(
    app_info:app_info,
    constraints:constraints,
    max_segs:3,
    severity:SECURITY_HOLE
);

References

CVSS2

9.3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS3

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

8.1

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.409

Percentile

97.3%