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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 · modified 4 mo ago · JSON
Summary
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. This vulnerability is an instance of a use after free vulnerability. The vulnerability is triggered by a crafted PDF file that can cause a memory access violation exception in the XFA engine because of a dangling reference left as a consequence of freeing an object in the computation that manipulates internal nodes in a graph representation of a document object model used in XFA. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
12.24% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVD | 3.0 | 8.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVD | 2.0 | 6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
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-416 Use After Free
References
- securityfocus.com /bid/102995 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
- 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
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2018-4888
- NVD: CVE-2018-4888
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