An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat Reader 2018.009.20050 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30070 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30394 an…

Published 8 y ago 2018-02-27 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

9.8

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

28.6%

percentile 98%

Public exploits

none known

An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat Reader 2018.009.20050 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30070 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30394 and earlier versions. The vulnerability is caused by the computation that writes data past the end of the intended buffer; the computation is part of the image conversion module that processes Enhanced Metafile Format Plus (EMF+) data. An attacker can potentially leverage the vulnerability to corrupt sensitive data or execute arbitrary code.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

28.63% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs.

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	9.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	10.0	`AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C`

Affected products

n/a Adobe Acrobat Reader 2018.009.20050 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30070 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30394 and earlier versions

Classification

Weakness

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

helpx.adobe.com /security/products/acrobat/apsb18-02.html · x_refsource_CONFIRM, x_transferred
securitytracker.com /id/1040364 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK, x_transferred
securityfocus.com /bid/102994 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2018-4879
NVD: CVE-2018-4879

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