An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat Reader 2018.009.20050 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30070 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30394…

Description

An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat Reader 2018.009.20050 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30070 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30394 and earlier versions. The vulnerability is caused by the computation that writes data past the end of the intended buffer; the computation is part of the document identity representation. An attacker can potentially leverage the vulnerability to corrupt sensitive data or execute arbitrary code.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

16.2% · top 3.1% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.

Weakness

• Out-of-bounds write
• CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-787 and its CVEs

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat Reader 2018.009.20050 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30070 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30394 and earlier versions

  • affected Adobe Acrobat Reader 2018.009.20050 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30070 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30394 and earlier versions

References (3)

• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb18-02.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 1040364 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 102994 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred

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)
• 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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2018-4901](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2018-4901.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2018-4901)

Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 05:18 UTC.