Adobe Reader and Acrobat Sandbox Bypass Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2022-05-25
Federal due date
2022-06-15
Vendor
Adobe
Product
Reader and Acrobat
EPSS
96.6th percentile (score 0.284, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0546

CISA short description

Adobe Reader and Acrobat on Windows allow attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism, and consequently execute native code in a privileged context.

Required action

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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.