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CVE-2011-0562 json

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.0.1, 9.x before 9.4.2, and 8.x before 8.2.6 on Windows allow…

published 2011-02-10 15 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2011-0580

cvss
6.9
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 52%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.0.1, 9.x before 9.4.2, and 8.x before 8.2.6 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0570 and CVE-2011-0588.

Patch / fix

  • acroread RHEL 4 EXTRAS 9.4.2-1.el4
  • acroread RHEL 5 EXTRAS 9.4.2-1.el5
  • acroread RHEL 6 EXTRAS 9.4.2-3.el6_0
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 4 EXTRAS 9.4.2-1.el4
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 9.4.2-1.el5
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 9.4.2-3.el6_0

red hat advisories RHSA-2011:0301

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2011-0562 updated cvss 6.8

acroread: critical APSB11-03

  • Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras acroread 9.4.2-1.el4, acroread-plugin 9.4.2-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras acroread 9.4.2-1.el4, acroread-plugin 9.4.2-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) acroread 9.4.2-1.el5, acroread-plugin 9.4.2-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) acroread 9.4.2-3.el6_0, acroread-plugin 9.4.2-3.el6_0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras acroread 9.4.2-1.el4, acroread-plugin 9.4.2-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) acroread 9.4.2-1.el5, acroread-plugin 9.4.2-1.el5
    +3 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) acroread 9.4.2-3.el6_0, acroread-plugin 9.4.2-3.el6_0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) acroread 9.4.2-3.el6_0, acroread-plugin 9.4.2-3.el6_0 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras acroread 9.4.2-1.el4, acroread-plugin 9.4.2-1.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2011:0301

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 52% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.