MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2007-1377

Acrobat Reader vulnerability

CVSS
5.0
EPSS
19.6%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
AcroPDF.DLL in Adobe Reader 8.0, when accessed from Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, or Opera, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unspecified resource consumption) via a .pdf URL with an anchor identifier that begins with search= followed by many %n sequences, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-6027 and CVE-2006-6236.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Acrobat Reader
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2007-03-10

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 availability.

Its EPSS score of 19.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2007-1377

  • Confirm whether Adobe Acrobat Reader is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-1377.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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