Assessment
Why it matters
CISA lists this vulnerability as known to be exploited; exploitation is confirmed; EPSS is 88.2%; technical severity is CVSS 7.8.
Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.x before 8.2.1 and 9.x before 9.3.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.
Who should care
- Teams operating Acrobat, Acrobat Reader, Reader and Acrobat
- Vulnerability and exposure management teams
- Security operations teams monitoring exploitation activity
Response plan
What I would do
- Confirm whether Acrobat, Acrobat Reader, Reader and Acrobat is present in the environment.
- Identify affected versions and establish whether vulnerable services are exposed or reachable.
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Review relevant security telemetry for evidence of attempted or successful exploitation.
- Document the remediation decision and track it to verified completion.
Vendor remediation
Patch and remediation links
Use the vendor source below to confirm the correct fixed version, package or mitigation for your affected product.
Technical details
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CWE
- CWE-94
- Affected versions
- Adobe Acrobat (Start Including: 9.0, End Excluding: 9.3.1); Adobe Acrobat Reader (Start Including: 9.0, End Excluding: 9.3.1); Adobe Reader and Acrobat
- Published
- 22 February 2010
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
Signal timeline
- CVE published
- Added to CISA KEV
- Latest EPSS score: 88.2%
- Signal calculated at 85
External references
- Government advisory from www.cisa.gov
- Third-party advisory from lists.opensuse.org
- Vendor advisory from secunia.com
- Third-party advisory from securitytracker.com
- Vendor advisory from www.adobe.com
- Vendor advisory from www.redhat.com
- Third-party advisory from www.securityfocus.com
- Vendor advisory from www.vupen.com
- Third-party advisory from exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com