THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-4999
MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2018-4999

Acrobat vulnerability

CVSS
6.5
EPSS
10.0%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 2018.009.20050 and earlier, 2017.011.30070 and earlier, and 2015.006.30394 and earlier have an Out-of-bounds read vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user.
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)
Published
2018-07-09

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 10.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-4999

  • Confirm whether Adobe Acrobat is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-4999.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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