Adobe Acrobat and Reader Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

CheckOps priority index

7.2/10 Patch within 7 days

Severity7.3

Probability8.1

Exploitation3/5

Severity = CVSS. Probability = EPSS (FIRST). Exploitation = public signals: KEV, EUVD, ransomware, EPSS above 10 %, no account required.

EPSS · today 81.4% higher than 99.6% of CVEs

CVSS 3.1 7.3 AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:

Exploited for 1,609 days 08 Jun 2022

CISA due date 22 Jun 2022 for US federal agencies

Exploitation probability EPSS · FIRST

EPSS probability (%)Percentile among all CVEs

Exploitation signals 3 / 5

KEV catalog (CISA)08 Jun 2022
Exploited in EUVD (ENISA)08 Jun 2022
Used by ransomwareno
EPSS above 10 %81.4%
No account, over the networkno

What to do

Fix

Apply the vendor’s fix as soon as it is available.

CISA guidance: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Meanwhile

Take the service off the internet or restrict access to it, watch the logs and look for signs of compromise.

Manufacturers (CRA)

Exploited vulnerability in your product: early warning to ENISA within 24 h, then notification within 72 h (Article 14 of the Cyber Resilience Act). The CRA explained

Description ENISA EUVD

Stack-based buffer overflow in CoolType.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.4, and 8.x before 8.2.5 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a PDF document with a long field in a Smart INdependent Glyphlets (SING) table in a TTF font, as exploited in the wild in September 2010. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

Acrobat and Reader

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-119

Open source packages OSV

Affected libraries according to OSV, with fixed versions.

Timeline

09 Sept 2010
Published
08 Jun 2022
Exploitation reported (ENISA)
08 Jun 2022
Added to the KEV catalog
22 Jun 2022
CISA remediation due date
26 Sept 2026
EPSS peak: 81.4%

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