CVE-2017-11243: adobe systems incorporated acrobat reader

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-11243 is a medium (CVSS 6.5) vulnerability in adobe systems incorporated acrobat reader. EPSS estimates a 7.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 11-08-2017
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 16-09-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the XSLT engine. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.