Adobe Reader and Acrobat Use-After-Free Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2022-03-03
Federal due date
2022-03-24
Vendor
Adobe
Product
Reader and Acrobat
EPSS
98.7th percentile (score 0.711, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0496

CISA short description

Adobe Reader and Acrobat contain a use-after-free vulnerability which can allow for code execution.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.