How severe is CVE-2011-2462?

CVE-2011-2462 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 88.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2011-2462: Adobe Reader and Acrobat Universal 3D Memory

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Adobe Reader and Acrobat Universal 3D Memory Corruption Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-06-08

Remediation due

2022-06-22

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2462

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in the U3D component in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.1.1 and earlier on Windows and Mac OS X, and Adobe Reader 9.x through 9.4.6 on UNIX, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in December 2011.

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

8 Links

Vendor advisories

Third-party advisories

TA11-350A

Vulnerability databases

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14562

Other references

Record Details

Published

2011-12-07

Last updated

2025-11-21

Assigner (CNA)

adobe

Credited to

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