CVE-2017-16369

Acrobat vulnerability

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

6.9%

EPSS pct

93th

Exploited

No known

An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 2017.012.20098 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30066 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30355 and earlier versions, and 11.0.22 and earlier versions. This vulnerability is an instance of a Same Origin Policy security bypass vulnerability, affecting files on the local system, etc.

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-200 — Exposure of Sensitive Information

Published

2017-12-09

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 6.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

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