01 Record
CVE-2021-28559
Adobe Acrobat Reader privacy violation vulnerability could lead to privilege escalation
MediumPUBLISHEDCNA: adobe
CNA base score5.3 CVSS v3.xCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
02 Description
Adobe Acrobat Reader privacy violation vulnerability could lead to privilege escalation
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.64% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 75.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 5.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-09-02 16:08Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-09-17 04:25Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-03-16
- Assigning CNA
- adobe
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 5.3)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-359Exposure of Private Personal Information to an Unauthorized ActorBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 1df9f84b8a997525bff53e18cc47a0633164d02291e062436936b73f896d2db6
05 Affected products
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