CVE-2018-4888

HIGH

Adobe Acrobat and Reader < 17.011.30070, < 18.009.20050, < 15.006.30394 - Use-After-Free in XFA Engine

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat Reader 2018.009.20050 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30070 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30394 and earlier versions. This vulnerability is an instance of a use after free vulnerability. The vulnerability is triggered by a crafted PDF file that can cause a memory access violation exception in the XFA engine because of a dangling reference left as a consequence of freeing an object in the computation that manipulates internal nodes in a graph representation of a document object model used in XFA. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102995
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040364

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.1271
EPSS Percentile 95.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-416
Status published
Products (6)
adobe/acrobat 17.0 - 17.011.30070
adobe/acrobat_dc - - 18.009.20050
adobe/acrobat_dc 15.0 - 15.006.30394
adobe/acrobat_reader 17.0 - 17.011.30070
adobe/acrobat_reader_dc - - 18.009.20050
adobe/acrobat_reader_dc 15.0 - 15.006.30394
Published Feb 27, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026