CVEvulnerability
CVE-2002-0030
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2003-04-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
The digital signature mechanism for the Adobe Acrobat PDF viewer only verifies the PE header of executable code for a plug-in, which can allow attackers to execute arbitrary code in certified mode by making the plug-in appear to be signed by Adobe.
Affected configurations
• adobe acrobat 4.0
• adobe acrobat 4.0.5
• adobe acrobat 4.0.5a
• adobe acrobat 4.0.5c
• adobe acrobat 5.0
• adobe acrobat 5.0.5
• adobe acrobat reader 4.0
• adobe acrobat reader 4.0.5
• adobe acrobat reader 4.0.5a
• adobe acrobat reader 4.0.5c
• adobe acrobat reader 5.0
• adobe acrobat reader 5.0.5
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0148.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-March/004230.html lists.grok.org.uk
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/549913 Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/JSHA-5EZQGZ Vendor Advisory
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0148.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-March/004230.html lists.grok.org.uk
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/549913 Patch, Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/JSHA-5EZQGZ Vendor Advisory