CVE-2017-16377Access of Uninitialized Pointer in Adobe Acrobat

Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
16.4%
top 5.13%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 9
Latest updateMay 17

Description

An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 2017.012.20098 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30066 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30355 and earlier versions, and 11.0.22 and earlier versions. This vulnerability is due to a computation that accesses a pointer that has not been initialized in the main DLL. In this case, a computation defines a read from an unexpected memory location. Therefore, an attacker might be able to read sensitive portions of memory.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

NVDadobe/acrobat_reader17.017.011.30066+1
NVDadobe/acrobat_reader_dc-17.012.20098+1
NVDadobe/acrobat17.017.011.30066+1
NVDadobe/acrobat_dc-17.012.20098+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-h4c5-5f4q-647w: An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 20172022-05-17
CVEList
CVE-2017-16377: An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 20172017-12-09
CVE-2017-16377 — Access of Uninitialized Pointer | cvebase