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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2007-1199 json

Adobe Reader and Acrobat Trial allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a file:// URI in a PDF document, as demonstrated with <</…

published 2007-03-02 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-1196

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
9.4%
EPSS 9.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Adobe Reader and Acrobat Trial allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a file:// URI in a PDF document, as demonstrated with <</URI(file:///C:/)/S/URI>>, a different issue than CVE-2007-0045.

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-2007-1199 updated

file: // URL execution

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-29686)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

9.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-29686 Adobe Acrobat/Adobe Reader 7.0.9 - Information Disclosure remote, 2007-02-28
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22753 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • gnucitizen.org http://www.gnucitizen.org/projects/pdf-strikes-back/ 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:P/I:N/A:N

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.