THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-0941
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2016-0941

Acrobat Reader vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
6.8%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Search object implementation in Adobe Reader and Acrobat before 11.0.14, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Classic before 15.006.30119, and Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Continuous before 15.010.20056 on Windows and OS X allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0932, CVE-2016-0934, CVE-2016-0937, and CVE-2016-0940.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Acrobat Reader
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
2016-01-14

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 6.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-0941

  • Confirm whether Adobe Acrobat Reader is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-0941.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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