CVE-1999-1576

Acrobat Reader vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

12.9%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in Adobe Acrobat ActiveX control (pdf.ocx, PDF.PdfCtrl.1) 1.3.188 for Acrobat Reader 4.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via the pdf.setview method.

Affected vendor

Adobe

Affected product

Acrobat Reader

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

1999-09-27

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 12.9% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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