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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2007-0044 json

Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin before 8.0.0 for the Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera web browsers allows remote attackers to force the br…

published 2007-01-03 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-0048

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
56.8%
EPSS 56.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin before 8.0.0 for the Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Opera web browsers allows remote attackers to force the browser to make unauthorized requests to other web sites via a URL in the (1) FDF, (2) xml, and (3) xfdf AJAX request parameters, following the # (hash) character, aka "Universal CSRF and session riding."

Patch / fix

  • acroread RHEL 3 EXTRAS 8.1.2-1.el3.6
  • acroread RHEL 4 EXTRAS 8.1.2-1.el4.2
  • acroread RHEL 5 EXTRAS 8.1.2-1.el5.3
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 3 EXTRAS 8.1.2-1.el3.6
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 4 EXTRAS 8.1.2-1.el4.2
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 8.1.2-1.el5.3

red hat advisories RHSA-2008:0144

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-2007-0044 updated

Acrobat Reader Universal CSRF and session riding

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 Extras acroread 8.1.2-1.el3.6, acroread-plugin 8.1.2-1.el3.6 Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras acroread 8.1.2-1.el4.2, acroread-plugin 8.1.2-1.el4.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 Extras acroread 8.1.2-1.el3.6, acroread-plugin 8.1.2-1.el3.6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras acroread 8.1.2-1.el4.2, acroread-plugin 8.1.2-1.el4.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) acroread 8.1.2-1.el5.3, acroread-plugin 8.1.2-1.el5.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 Extras acroread 8.1.2-1.el3.6, acroread-plugin 8.1.2-1.el3.6
    +4 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras acroread 8.1.2-1.el4.2, acroread-plugin 8.1.2-1.el4.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) acroread 8.1.2-1.el5.3, acroread-plugin 8.1.2-1.el5.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 Extras acroread 8.1.2-1.el3.6, acroread-plugin 8.1.2-1.el3.6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras acroread 8.1.2-1.el4.2, acroread-plugin 8.1.2-1.el4.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2008:0144

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-29383)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

56.77% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-29383 Adobe Reader 9.1.3 Plugin - Cross-Site Scripting remote, 2007-01-03
  • wisec.it http://www.wisec.it/vulns.php?page=9 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

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.