CVE-2009-0927
High 8.8 Exploited in the wild (KEV)
Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog
- Name
- Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- Added to catalog
- Remediation due date (US federal)
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 9 before 9.1, 8 before 8.1.3 , and 7 before 7.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted argument to the getIcon method of a Collab object, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-0658.
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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8.8 (HIGH)
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 97% (percentile: 100) as of 1 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-20, CWE-121
Affected products
adobe: acrobat reader
References
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-04.html PatchVendor Advisory
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-04.html PatchVendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00005.html Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34490 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34706 Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34790 Third Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-17.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-256788-1 Broken Link
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9579 Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry