CVE-2014-8452

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 17.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-12-10 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.1.13 and 11.x before 11.0.10 on Windows and OS X allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via an XML external entity declaration in conjunction with an entity reference, related to an XML External Entity (XXE) issue.

Affected products

Adobe Acrobat for Edge: 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.1, 10.1.1 (+21)
Adobe Acrobat Reader: 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2, 10.0.3, 10.1, 10.1.1 (+21)
macOS: all versions
Microsoft Corporation Windows: all versions

References

http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/reader/apsb14-28.html
http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/reader/apsb14-28.html

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