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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.3

CVE-2006-6236 in the critical feed json

Adobe Reader (Adobe Acrobat Reader) 7.0 through 7.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary c…

published 2006-12-03 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-6219

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
21.2%
EPSS 21.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Adobe Reader (Adobe Acrobat Reader) 7.0 through 7.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument string to the (1) src, (2) setPageMode, (3) setLayoutMode, and (4) setNamedDest methods in an AcroPDF ActiveX control, a different set of vectors than CVE-2006-6027.

Patch / fix

Exploit prediction

21.24% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • exploit-db.com https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3040 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

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

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.