VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2011-0562

medium
Published 2011-02-10 · 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
6.9

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.0.1, 9.x before 9.4.2, and 8.x before 8.2.6 on Windows allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in the current working directory, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0570 and CVE-2011-0588.

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.

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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_reader8.2
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.2.1
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.2.2
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.2.3
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.2.4
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
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.3.1
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.3.2
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.3.3
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.3.4
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.4
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.4.1
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.0
adobe adobeacrobat8.0
adobe adobeacrobat8.1
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.1
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.2
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.3
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.4
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.5
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.6
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.7
adobe adobeacrobat8.2
adobe adobeacrobat8.2.1
adobe adobeacrobat8.2.2
adobe adobeacrobat8.2.3
adobe adobeacrobat8.2.4
adobe adobeacrobat9.0
adobe adobeacrobat9.1
adobe adobeacrobat9.1.1
adobe adobeacrobat9.1.2
adobe adobeacrobat9.1.3
adobe adobeacrobat9.2
adobe adobeacrobat9.3
adobe adobeacrobat9.3.1
adobe adobeacrobat9.3.2
adobe adobeacrobat9.3.3
adobe adobeacrobat9.3.4
adobe adobeacrobat9.4
adobe adobeacrobat9.4.1
adobe adobeacrobat10.0

References

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

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