CVE-2017-16406

high

Published 2017-12-09 · Modified 2026-05-13

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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

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 2017.012.20098 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30066 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30355 and earlier versions, and 11.0.22 and earlier versions. This vulnerability is an instance of a type confusion vulnerability in the EMF processing module. The issue causes the program to access an object using an incompatible type, leading to an out of bounds memory access. Attackers can exploit the vulnerability by using the out of bounds access for unintended reads, writes, or frees -- potentially leading to code corruption, control-flow hijack, or information leak attack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

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

Vendor	Product	Versions
adobe	acrobat	`{"endIncluding":"11.0.22"}`
adobe	acrobat_dc	`{"startIncluding":"-","endIncluding":"17.012.20098"}`
adobe	acrobat_reader	`{"endIncluding":"11.0.22"}`
adobe	acrobat_reader_dc	`{"startIncluding":"-","endIncluding":"17.012.20098"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-125

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

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