Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 15.020.20042 and earlier, 15.006.30244 and earlier, 11.0.18 and earlier have an exploitable heap overflow vul…

published 2017-01-11 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-12090

cvss: 7.8; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 20.4%; EPSS 20.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits: 0; none known

Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 15.020.20042 and earlier, 15.006.30244 and earlier, 11.0.18 and earlier have an exploitable heap overflow vulnerability in the XSLT engine. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Patch / fix

links 1

helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb17-01.html advisory

Exploit prediction

20.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	7.8	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	9.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

n/a Adobe Acrobat Reader 15.020.20042 and earlier, 15.006.30244 and earlier, 11.0.18 and earlier.

Classification

Weakness

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

References

Sources

CVE List CVE-2017-2949
NVD CVE-2017-2949

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Summary