CVE-2017-16378

high-risk

Published 2017-12-09

An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 2017.012.20098 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30066 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30355 and earlier versions, and 11.0.22 and earlier versions. This vulnerability is due to a computation that accesses a pointer that has not been initialized; the computation occurs during internal AST thread manipulation. In this case, a computation defines a read from an unexpected memory location. Therefore, an attacker might be able to read sensitive portions of memory.

Do I need to act?

16.4% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — higher than 84% of all CVEs

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 8.8/10 High

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (6)

Acrobat

Acrobat Dc

Acrobat Reader

Acrobat Reader Dc

Affected Vendors

Adobe

References (6)

Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101821

Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039791

Vendor Advisory https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb17-36.html

Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101821

Third Party Advisory http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039791

Vendor Advisory https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb17-36.html

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high-risk

Severity 30/34 · Critical

Exploitability 13/34 · Low

Exposure 13/34 · Low