HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2013-2550

Acrobat Reader vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
4.4%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Reader 11.0.02 allows attackers to bypass the sandbox protection mechanism via unknown vectors, as demonstrated by George Hotz during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2013.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Acrobat Reader
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2013-03-11

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 confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.4% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2013-2550

  • Confirm whether Adobe Acrobat Reader is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2013-2550.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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