THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2009-1855
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2009-1855

Acrobat vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
12.4%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
Stack-based buffer overflow in Adobe Reader 7 and Acrobat 7 before 7.1.3, Adobe Reader 8 and Acrobat 8 before 8.1.6, and Adobe Reader 9 and Acrobat 9 before 9.1.2 might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file containing a malformed U3D model file with a crafted extension block.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Acrobat
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2009-06-11

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 12.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2009-1855

  • Confirm whether Adobe Acrobat is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2009-1855.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

How ThreatPort helps with CVE-2009-1855

ThreatPort's external attack surface scanner checks your internet-facing assets — agentlessly, from the outside in — for the exposed services and versions that CVE-2009-1855 affects, then prioritises the finding by real risk using CISA KEV and FIRST.org EPSS.

Run a free external exposure scan

Are you exposed to CVE-2009-1855?

Run an instant, non-intrusive external scan to check your attack surface for CVE-2009-1855.

Start free scan

No credit card. Agentless.

Related vulnerabilities

HIGH
CVE-2015-6857
Loadrunner vulnerability
HIGH
CVE-2015-2327
Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library vulnerability
HIGH
CVE-2015-2328
Linux vulnerability