VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-2042

critical
Published 2012-05-24 · 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
10.0

Description

Adobe Illustrator before CS6 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-0780, CVE-2012-2023, CVE-2012-2024, CVE-2012-2025, and CVE-2012-2026.

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 adobeillustrator7.0
adobe adobeillustrator8.0
adobe adobeillustrator9.0
adobe adobeillustrator10.0
adobe adobeillustrator11.0
adobe adobeillustrator11.0.1
adobe adobeillustrator12.0.0
adobe adobeillustrator13.0
adobe adobeillustrator13.0.1
adobe adobeillustrator13.0.2
adobe adobeillustrator13.0.3
adobe adobeillustrator14.0
adobe adobeillustrator15.0
adobe adobeillustrator_cs5.5{"endIncluding":"15"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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