Vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader

CVE-2003-0142

Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread) 6, under certain circumstances when running with the "Certified plug-ins only" option disabled, loads plug-ins with signatures used for older versions of Acrobat, which can allow attackers to cause Acrobat to enter Certified mode and run untrusted plugins by modifying the CTIsCertifiedMode function.

EPSS: 0.022 (80.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

References

  • cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
  • cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)