THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2009-2997
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2009-2997

Acrobat vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
8.4%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.x before 7.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7, and 9.x before 9.2 might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
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
2009-10-19

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 8.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2009-2997

  • Confirm whether Adobe Acrobat is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2009-2997.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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