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CVE-2012-1525 in the critical feed json

Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.5.2 and 10.x before 10.1.4 on Windows and Mac OS X allows attackers to…

published 2012-08-15 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-1543

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
31.8%
EPSS 31.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.5.2 and 10.x before 10.1.4 on Windows and Mac OS X allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Patch / fix

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-2012-1525 updated cvss 6.8

acroread: multiple code execution flaw (APSB12-16)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 acroread Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 acroread, acroread-plugin
    affected: no fix available

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

31.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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