Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2021-11-03
Federal due date
2021-11-17
Vendor
Adobe
Product
Acrobat and Reader
EPSS
96.8th percentile (score 0.307, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-28550

CISA short description

Adobe Acrobat and Reader contains a use-after-free vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to achieve code execution in the context of the current user.

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.