CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-2993

9.3 HIGH Published 2009-10-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
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