THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2017-16410
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2017-16410

Acrobat vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
8.5%
EPSS pct
94th
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. The vulnerability is a result of untrusted input that is used to calculate an array index; the calculation occurs in the image conversion module, when processing GIF files. The vulnerability leads to an operation that can write to a memory location that is outside of the memory addresses allocated for the data structure. The specific scenario leads to a write access to a memory location that does not belong to the relevant process address space.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Acrobat
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-129 — Improper Validation of Array Index
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, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 8.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2017-16410

  • Confirm whether Adobe Acrobat is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-16410.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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