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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2009-2993 json

The JavaScript for Acrobat API in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.x before 7.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7, and 9.x before 9.2 does not properly impleme…

published 2009-10-19 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-2978

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.7%
EPSS 6.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The JavaScript for Acrobat API in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.x before 7.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7, and 9.x before 9.2 does not properly implement the (1) Privileged Context and (2) Safe Path restrictions for unspecified JavaScript methods, which allows remote attackers to create arbitrary files, and possibly execute arbitrary code, via the cPath parameter in a crafted PDF file. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Patch / fix

  • acroread RHEL 3 EXTRAS 8.1.7-1
  • acroread RHEL 4 EXTRAS 8.1.7-1.el4
  • acroread RHEL 5 EXTRAS 8.1.7-1.el5
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 3 EXTRAS 8.1.7-1
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 4 EXTRAS 8.1.7-1.el4
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 8.1.7-1.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:1499

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2009-2993 updated cvss 6.8

acroread: Multiple arbitrary code execution fixes in 8.1.7 (APSB09-15)

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 Extras acroread 8.1.7-1, acroread-plugin 8.1.7-1 Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras acroread 8.1.7-1.el4, acroread-plugin 8.1.7-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 Extras acroread 8.1.7-1, acroread-plugin 8.1.7-1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras acroread 8.1.7-1.el4, acroread-plugin 8.1.7-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) acroread 8.1.7-1.el5, acroread-plugin 8.1.7-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 Extras acroread 8.1.7-1, acroread-plugin 8.1.7-1
    +4 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras acroread 8.1.7-1.el4, acroread-plugin 8.1.7-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) acroread 8.1.7-1.el5, acroread-plugin 8.1.7-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 Extras acroread 8.1.7-1, acroread-plugin 8.1.7-1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras acroread 8.1.7-1.el4, acroread-plugin 8.1.7-1.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:1499

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

6.67% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.