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CVE-2009-1862: Adobe Acrobat and Reader, Flash Player Unspecified Vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2022-06-08
• EPSS: 21.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-07-23 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x through 9.1.2, and Adobe Flash Player 9.x through 9.0.159.0 and 10.x through 10.0.22.87, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via (1) a crafted Flash application in a .pdf file or (2) a crafted .swf file, related to authplay.dll, as exploited in the wild in July 2009.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat for Edge: from 9.0 through 9.1.2
• Adobe Acrobat Reader: from 9.0 through 9.1.2
• Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier.: from 9.0 through 9.0.159.0; from 10.0 through 10.0.22.87

References

• http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2009/07/potential_adobe_reader_and_fla.html
• http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FP-1265
• http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6847
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00003.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00004.html
• http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-10293389-245.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36193
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36374
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36701
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200908-04.xml
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-266108-1
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3864

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