CVE-2017-16419 — Uncontrolled Recursion in Adobe Acrobat

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled Recursion4 documents4 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
2.8%
top 13.80%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Adobe AcrobatAdobe Acrobat DCAdobe Acrobat Reader+1 more
Timeline
PublishedDec 9
Latest updateMay 13

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. The issue is a stack exhaustion problem within the JavaScript API, where the computation does not correctly control the amount of recursion that can happen with respect to system resources.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDadobe/acrobat_reader17.0 — 17.011.30066+1
▶NVDadobe/acrobat_reader_dc- — 17.012.20098+1
▶NVDadobe/acrobat17.0 — 17.011.30066+1
▶NVDadobe/acrobat_dc- — 17.012.20098+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-vrm3-v8w6-8742: An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 2017↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2017-16419: An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 2017↗2017-12-09
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🕵️Threat Intelligence

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Zscaler
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