CVE-2007-0046

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 56.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2007-01-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Double free vulnerability in the Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin before 8.0.0, as used in Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.7, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by causing an error via a javascript: URI call to document.write in the (1) FDF, (2) XML, or (3) XFDF AJAX request parameters.

Affected products

Adobe Acrobat Reader: through 7.0.8

References

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Fahrplan/attachments/1158-Subverting_Ajax.pdf
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0012.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/23691
http://secunia.com/advisories/23812
http://secunia.com/advisories/23877
http://secunia.com/advisories/23882
http://secunia.com/advisories/24533
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-16.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2090
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017469
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102847-1
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-01.html

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