THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2011-0596
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2011-0596

Acrobat Reader vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
7.2%
EPSS pct
94th
Exploited
No known
The Bitmap parsing component in 2d.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.0.1, 9.x before 9.4.2, and 8.x before 8.2.6 on Windows and Mac OS X allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an image with crafted (1) height and (2) width values for an RLE_8 compressed bitmap, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0598, CVE-2011-0599, and CVE-2011-0602.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Acrobat Reader
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation
Published
2011-02-10

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 7.2% 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-2011-0596

  • Confirm whether Adobe Acrobat Reader is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2011-0596.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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