What is CVE-2012-0777?

CVE-2012-0777 is a vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2012-04-10.

Is CVE-2012-0777 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Buffer overflow in Adobe Acrobat

CVE-2012-0777

The JavaScript API in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.5.1 and 10.x before 10.1.3 on Mac OS X and Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2012-04-10 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.071 (94.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-03.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 94.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.071 · newest: 0.071 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Public proof-of-concept exploits

Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-2012-0777

References

rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0469.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
secunia.com/advisories/48756 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-08.html (Vendor Advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00017.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/52950 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)
secunia.com/advisories/48846 (Broken Link, third-party-advisory)
www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA12-101B.html (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, Mitigation, third-party-advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00016.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00013.html (vendor-advisory, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
www.securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-0777?: CVE-2012-0777 is a vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2012-04-10.
Is CVE-2012-0777 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.