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CVE-2018-4888

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.

  • Published: Feb 27, 2018
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2018-4888
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 8.8
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.8
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
adobe / acrobat_reader 17.0 17.011.30070.x
adobe / acrobat_dc 15.0 15.006.30394.x
adobe / acrobat_reader_dc 15.0 15.006.30394.x
adobe / acrobat_dc - 18.009.20050.x
adobe / acrobat_reader_dc - 18.009.20050.x
adobe / acrobat 17.0 17.011.30070.x