CVE-2009-2991

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-10-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the Mozilla plug-in in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.x before 8.1.7, and possibly 7.x before 7.1.4 and 9.x before 9.2, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Affected products

Adobe Acrobat for Edge: through 9.1.3; 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5 (+17)
Adobe Acrobat Reader: through 9.1.3; 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.2, 7.0.3, 7.0.4, 7.0.5 (+19)

References

http://securitytracker.com/id?1023007
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36638
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-286B.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2898
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5557
http://securitytracker.com/id?1023007
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36638
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-286B.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2898
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A5557

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