CVEvulnerability
CVE-2009-2993
9.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2009-10-19
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The JavaScript for Acrobat API in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.x before 7.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7, and 9.x before 9.2 does not properly implement the (1) Privileged Context and (2) Safe Path restrictions for unspecified JavaScript methods, which allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via the cPath parameter in a crafted PDF file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Affected configurations
• adobe acrobat (<= 9.1.3)
• adobe acrobat 7.0
• adobe acrobat 7.0.1
• adobe acrobat 7.0.2
• adobe acrobat 7.0.3
• adobe acrobat 7.0.4
• adobe acrobat 7.0.5
• adobe acrobat 7.0.6
• adobe acrobat 7.0.7
• adobe acrobat 7.0.8
• adobe acrobat 7.0.9
• adobe acrobat 7.1.0
• adobe acrobat 7.1.1
• adobe acrobat 7.1.3
• adobe acrobat 8.0
• adobe acrobat 8.1
• adobe acrobat 8.1.1
• adobe acrobat 8.1.2
• adobe acrobat 8.1.3
• adobe acrobat 8.1.4
• adobe acrobat 8.1.6
• adobe acrobat 9.0
• adobe acrobat 9.1.1
• adobe acrobat 9.1.2
• adobe acrobat reader (<= 9.1.3)
• adobe acrobat reader 7.0
• adobe acrobat reader 7.0.1
• adobe acrobat reader 7.0.2
• adobe acrobat reader 7.0.3
• adobe acrobat reader 7.0.4
• adobe acrobat reader 7.0.5
• adobe acrobat reader 7.0.6
• adobe acrobat reader 7.0.7
• adobe acrobat reader 7.0.8
• adobe acrobat reader 7.0.9
• adobe acrobat reader 7.1.0
• adobe acrobat reader 7.1.1
• adobe acrobat reader 7.1.3
• adobe acrobat reader 8.0
• adobe acrobat reader 8.1
• adobe acrobat reader 8.1.1
• adobe acrobat reader 8.1.2
• adobe acrobat reader 8.1.3
• adobe acrobat reader 8.1.4
• adobe acrobat reader 8.1.5
• adobe acrobat reader 8.1.6
• adobe acrobat reader 9.0
• adobe acrobat reader 9.1
• adobe acrobat reader 9.1.1
• adobe acrobat reader 9.1.2
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023007 securitytracker.com
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/257117 Patch, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36638 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36664 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-286B.html Patch, US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2898 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5822 oval.cisecurity.org
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023007 securitytracker.com
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/257117 Patch, US Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36638 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36664 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-286B.html Patch, US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2898 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5822 oval.cisecurity.org