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CVE-2009-2993

N/A

Published: October 19, 2009 at 10:00 PM UTC

Updated: June 16, 2026 at 11:10 PM UTC

2 products affected across 1 vendorAcrobat ReaderAcrobat

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Severity

N/A

Exploit prediction

EPSS 7%

Description

The JavaScript for Acrobat API in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.x before 7.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7, and 9.x before 9.2 does not properly implement the (1) Privileged Context and (2) Safe Path restrictions for unspecified JavaScript methods, which allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via the cPath parameter in a crafted PDF file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Acrobat · Adobe

95%

v ≤ 9.1.37.0 7.0.1 7.0.2 7.0.3 7.0.4 7.0.5 7.0.6 7.0.7 7.0.8 7.0.9 7.1.0 7.1.1 7.1.3 8.0 8.1 8.1.1 8.1.2 8.1.3 8.1.4 8.1.6 9.0 9.1.1 9.1.2

Acrobat Reader · Adobe

95%

v ≤ 9.1.37.0 7.0.1 7.0.2 7.0.3 7.0.4 7.0.5 7.0.6 7.0.7 7.0.8 7.0.9 7.1.0 7.1.1 7.1.3 8.0 8.1 8.1.1 8.1.2 8.1.3 8.1.4 8.1.5 8.1.6 9.0 9.1 9.1.1 9.1.2

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (8)

VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK

Source: [email protected]

http://securitytracker.com/id?1023007

x_refsource_CONFIRMPatchVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNPatchUS Government Resource

Source: [email protected]

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/257117

VDB Entryx_refsource_BID

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36638

VDB Entryx_refsource_BID

Source: [email protected]

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36664

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERTPatchUS Government Resource

Source: [email protected]

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-286B.html

VDB Entryx_refsource_VUPENPatchVendor Advisory

Source: [email protected]

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2898

VDB EntrySignaturex_refsource_OVAL

Source: [email protected]

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5822

CVSS

9.3HIGH[email protected]

Confidentiality: COMPLETE
Integrity: COMPLETE
Availability: COMPLETE

Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED

CWE

CWE-20

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