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CVE-2014-9150

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-11-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the MoveFileEx call hook feature in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 11.x before 11.0.09 on Windows allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism, and consequently write to files in arbitrary locations, via an NTFS junction attack, a similar issue to CVE-2014-0568.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat for Edge: through 11.0.8; 11.0, 11.0.1, 11.0.2, 11.0.3, 11.0.4, 11.0.5 (+2)
• Adobe Acrobat Reader: through 11.0.8; 11.0, 11.0.1, 11.0.2, 11.0.3, 11.0.4, 11.0.5 (+2)

References

• http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/reader/apsb14-28.html
• https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=103
• http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/reader/apsb14-28.html
• https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=103

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