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CVE-2009-4324
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Doc.media.newPlayer method in Multimedia.api in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3, and 8.x…
High7.8Known exploitedEPSS 81.9%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- adobe
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Doc.media.newPlayer method in Multimedia.api in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3, and 8.x before 8.2 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file using ZLib compressed streams, as exploited in the wild in December 2009.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free Vulnerability.
- Added
- 8 Jun 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 22 Jun 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
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Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 81.9% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (22)
- 37331 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2009/12/new_adobe_reader_and_acrobat_v.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 37690 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 38138 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547799 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 60980 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- VU#508357 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- acro-reader-unspecifed-code-execution(54747) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2009-3518 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.metasploit.com/redmine/projects/framework/repository/revisions/7881/entry/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/adobe_media_newplayer.rb (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-02.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6795 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0060 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://contagiodump.blogspot.com/2009/12/virustotal-httpwww.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2010-0103 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-07.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/zero-day-xmas-present (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Calendar/20091214 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 38215 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2010:008 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- TA10-013A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2009-4324 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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