Vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat
CVE-2003-0434
Various PDF viewers including (1) Adobe Acrobat 5.06 and (2) Xpdf 1.01 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an embedded hyperlink.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.409 (98.6th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 99th percentile — 98.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.409 · newest: 0.409 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Adobe Acrobat — versions 5.0.6
- Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux — versions 9.0, 9.1
- Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server — versions 2.1
- Xpdf — versions 1.1
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 2.1
- Red Hat Linux — versions 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
- Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation — versions 2.1
References
- secunia.com/advisories/9038 (third-party-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/200132 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2003-June/005719.html (mailing-list)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-196.html (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/9037 (third-party-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-197.html (vendor-advisory, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:664 (signature, vdb-entry)