CVE-2017-11209

Acrobat vulnerability

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

11.5%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability that occurs when reading a JPEG file embedded within XML Paper Specification (XPS) file. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected vendor

Adobe

Affected product

Acrobat

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2017-08-11

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.

Its EPSS score of 11.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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