CVSS2
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
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
Confidence
High
EPSS
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",
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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:
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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
);
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-21038
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-21044
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-21086
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28550
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28553
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28555
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28557
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28558
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28559
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28560
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28561
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28562
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28564
cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-28565
helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb21-29.html
CVSS2
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
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
Confidence
High
EPSS
Percentile
97.3%