VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-0938

high
Published 2016-01-14 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.8

Description

The AcroForm plugin in Adobe Reader and Acrobat before 11.0.14, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Classic before 15.006.30119, and Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Continuous before 15.010.20056 on Windows and OS X allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0931, CVE-2016-0933, CVE-2016-0936, CVE-2016-0939, CVE-2016-0942, CVE-2016-0944, CVE-2016-0945, and CVE-2016-0946.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
macos macOS Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobeacrobat_reader{"endIncluding":"11.0.13"}
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.0
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.1
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.2
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.3
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.4
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.5
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.6
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.7
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.8
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.9
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.10
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.11
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.12
adobe adobeacrobat_dc{"endIncluding":"15.006.30097"}
adobe adobeacrobat_reader_dc{"endIncluding":"15.006.30097"}
adobe adobeacrobat{"endIncluding":"11.0.13"}
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.0
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.1
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.2
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.3
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.4
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.5
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.6
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.7
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.8
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.9
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.10
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.11
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.12

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

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