CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2016-0954

Digital Editions vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
19.1%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Adobe Digital Editions before 4.5.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Digital Editions
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2016-03-09

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 19.1% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-0954

  • Confirm whether Adobe Digital Editions is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-0954.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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