VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2009-4764

critical
Published 2010-04-05 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

Adobe Reader 8.x and 9.x on Windows is able to execute EXE files that are embedded in a PDF document, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick users into executing arbitrary code via a crafted document.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here with source_tier=community-verified.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.0
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.1
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.1.1
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.1.2
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.1.4
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.1.5
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.1.6
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.1.7
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.0
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.1
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.1.1
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.1.2
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.1.3
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.2
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.3

References

CWEs

CWE-94

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.