CVE-2009-4324
Adobe Acrobat and Reader: Use-After-Free
As of , CVE-2009-4324 in Adobe Acrobat and Reader is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch this week.
- Exploited
- Yes: CISA listed it on 8 June 2022
- US federal deadline
- 22 June 202214 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
- Used in ransomware campaigns
- Not known to CISA
- EPSS score
- 0.82Higher than 99% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS when listed
- 0.87 on 8 June 2022EPSS on the day CISA listed it.
- Public exploit
- 2 Metasploit modules and 3 Exploit-DB entries (3 verified)
- Fix
- No vendor link in CISA's entry
What CISA says to do
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
CISA's required action
What the flaw is
Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat and Reader allows remote attackers to execute code via a crafted PDF file.
CISA's description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Doc.media.newPlayer method in Multimedia.api in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3, and 8.x before 8.2 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file using ZLib compressed streams, as exploited in the wild in December 2009.
The CVE record's description, from adobe
- CVE published
- 15 December 2009
- Assigned by
- adobe
- CVSS
- 7.8 High (CVSS 3.1, from CISA-ADP)
- CWE-416
- Use After Free
- CWE-399
- Resource Management Errors
- CISA SSVC, exploitation
- active
- CISA SSVC, automatable
- no
- CISA SSVC, technical impact
- total
Timeline
- The CVE record was published.
- Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 10618).
- Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 16503).
- Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 16623).
- CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- The US federal deadline to fix it.
Public exploits
Facts from Metasploit's module list and Exploit-DB's index; we never copy exploit code.
- Metasploit: Adobe Doc.media.newPlayer Use After Free Vulnerabilityexploit module, rank good
- Metasploit: Adobe Doc.media.newPlayer Use After Free Vulnerabilityexploit module, rank good
- Exploit-DB: Adobe - 'Doc.media.newPlayer' Use-After-Free (Metasploit) (2)EDB-ID 16623, verified by Exploit-DB, 25 September 2010
- Exploit-DB: Adobe - 'Doc.media.newPlayer' Use-After-Free (Metasploit) (1)EDB-ID 16503, verified by Exploit-DB, 30 April 2010
- Exploit-DB: Adobe Reader / Acrobat - '.PDF' File OverflowEDB-ID 10618, verified by Exploit-DB, 23 December 2009
Acrobat and Reader: other exploited entries
| Vulnerability | Product | Our group | Listed | Deadline | EPSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2009-3459Heap-Based Buffer Overflow | Adobe Acrobat and Reader | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.87; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.87 | ||
| CVE-2007-5659Buffer Overflow | Adobe Acrobat and Reader | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.87; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.87 | ||
| CVE-2009-3953Universal 3D Remote Code Execution | Adobe Acrobat and Reader | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.83; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.83 | ||
| CVE-2010-2883Stack-Based Buffer Overflow | Adobe Acrobat and Reader | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.81; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.81 | ||
| CVE-2008-2992Reader and Acrobat Input Validation | Adobe Acrobat and Reader | Patch this weekRansomware use; Metasploit module; EPSS 0.98; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.98 | ||
| CVE-2023-21608Use-After-Free | Adobe Acrobat and Reader | Patch this weekEPSS 0.61 | 0.61 | ||
| CVE-2021-21017Heap-based Buffer Overflow | Adobe Acrobat and Reader | Patch this weekEPSS 0.86 | 0.86 | ||
| CVE-2021-28550Use-After-Free | Adobe Acrobat and Reader | Patch this weekEPSS 0.52 | 0.52 | ||
| CVE-2008-0655Unspecified | Adobe Acrobat and Reader | Patch soon | 0.38 | ||
| CVE-2018-4990Double Free | Adobe Acrobat and Reader | Patch soon | 0.36 |
Read further
- CVE recordcve.org
- NVD entrynvd.nist.gov
- CISA's catalogcisa.gov
- EPSS for this CVEapi.first.org