How severe is CVE-2013-0640?

CVE-2013-0640 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 86.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2013-0640: Adobe Reader and Acrobat Memory Corruption

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

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

Added to KEV

2022-03-03

Remediation due

2022-03-24

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-0640

Description

Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.5.4, 10.x before 10.1.6, and 11.x before 11.0.02 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted PDF document, as exploited in the wild in February 2013.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/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

11 Links

Vendor advisories

Third-party advisories

VU#422807

Vulnerability databases

oval:org.mitre.oval:def:16406

Other references

Record Details

Published

2013-02-14

Last updated

2025-10-22

Assigner (CNA)

adobe

Credited to

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