CVE-2006-6027

Acrobat Reader vulnerability

CVSS

9.3

EPSS

43.0%

EPSS pct

99th

Exploited

No known

Adobe Reader (Adobe Acrobat Reader) 7.0 through 7.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument string to the LoadFile method in an AcroPDF ActiveX control.

Affected vendor

Adobe

Affected product

Acrobat Reader

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Published

2006-11-21

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 43.0% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it among the most exploited CVEs currently tracked.

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