How severe is CVE-2009-0927?

CVE-2009-0927 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 96.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2009-0927: Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Stack-Based Buffer

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-03-25

Remediation due

2022-04-15

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-0927

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 9 before 9.1, 8 before 8.1.3 , and 7 before 7.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted argument to the getIcon method of a Collab object, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-0658.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

16 Links

Vendor advisories

Exploits & PoCs

9579

Third-party advisories

Mailing lists

20090324 ZDI-09-014: Adobe Acrobat getIcon() Stack Overflow Vulnerability

Vulnerability databases

Other references

Record Details

Published

2009-03-19

Last updated

2025-10-22

Assigner (CNA)

mitre

Credited to

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