CVE-2017-11242

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Published 2017-08-11 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

6.5

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.5

Description

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the image conversion engine when processing Enhanced Metafile Format (EMF) data related to line segments. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

75%

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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OS impact

macOS Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
adobe	acrobat	`{"startIncluding":"11.0.0","endIncluding":"11.0.20"}`
adobe	acrobat_dc	`{"startIncluding":"15.006.30060","endIncluding":"15.006.30306"}`
adobe	acrobat_reader	`{"startIncluding":"17.011.00000","endIncluding":"17.011.30066"}`
adobe	acrobat_reader_dc	`{"startIncluding":"15.006.30060","endIncluding":"15.006.30306"}`
adobe	reader	`{"startIncluding":"11.0.0","endIncluding":"11.0.20"}`

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.