THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-4948
CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2018-4948

Acrobat Dc vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
15.6%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 2018.011.20038 and earlier, 2017.011.30079 and earlier, and 2015.006.30417 and earlier have a Heap Overflow vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Acrobat Dc
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2018-07-09

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 15.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-4948

  • Confirm whether Adobe Acrobat Dc is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-4948.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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