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CVE-2017-11236

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-08-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the internal handling of UTF-16 literal strings. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat for Edge: from 11.0.0 through 11.0.20; from 17.011.00000 through 17.011.30066
• Adobe Acrobat DC: from 15.006.30060 through 15.006.30306; from 15.007.20033 through 17.009.20058
• Adobe Acrobat Reader: from 17.011.00000 through 17.011.30066
• Adobe Acrobat Reader: from 15.006.30060 through 15.006.30306; from 15.007.20033 through 17.009.20058
• Adobe Reader: from 11.0.0 through 11.0.20

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100184
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039098
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb17-24.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100184
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039098
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb17-24.html

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