CVE-2007-0045: adobe acrobat
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2007-0045 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in adobe acrobat. EPSS estimates a 47.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98.8% of scored vulnerabilities. 5 public exploits are recorded.
Not severe (CVSS 4.3, network access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 3Timeline
- 03-01-2007PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin before 8.0.0, and possibly the plugin distributed with Adobe Reader 7.x before 7.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7, and 9.x before 9.2, for Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1, Google Chrome, Opera 8.5.4 build 770, and Opera 9.10.8679 on Windows allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript and conduct other attacks via a .pdf URL with a javascript: or res: URI with (1) FDF, (2) XML, and (3) XFDF AJAX parameters, or (4) an arbitrarily named name=URI anchor identifier, aka "Universal XSS (UXSS)."
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
47.34%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
99%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
Decrease -0.13 pp
From 47.47% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.
Not in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
5 foundExploit Reference (securityfocus.com)
Maturity: unknown
Exploit Reference (securityfocus.com)
Maturity: unknown
Exploit Reference (gnucitizen.org)
Maturity: unknown
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Adobe2 products
- acrobat≤ 7.0.8 | 7.0 | 7.0.1 | 7.0.2 | 7.0.3 | 7.0.4 | 7.0.5 | 7.0.6 | 7.0.7 | 7.0.8
- acrobat_reader≤ 7.0.8 | 6.0 | 6.0.1 | 6.0.2 | 6.0.3 | 6.0.4 | 6.0.5 | 7.0 | 7.0.1 | 7.0.2 | 7.0.3 | 7.0.4 | 7.0.5 | 7.0.6 | 7.0.7 | 7.0.8
1 vendor · 2 products
References
44 links- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-286B.htmlThird Party AdvisoryX Refsource CERTUS Government Resource
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- h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742Vendor AdvisoryX Refsource HP
- www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.htmlX Refsource CONFIRM
- www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-02.htmlX Refsource CONFIRM
- www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa07-02.htmlX Refsource CONFIRM
- www.gnucitizen.org/blog/universal-pdf-xss-after-partyX Refsource MISC
- www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-01.htmlX Refsource CONFIRM
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9693VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6487VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL
- slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.338131Vendor AdvisoryX Refsource SLACKWARE