CVE-2014-8457

critical
Published 2014-12-10 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.1.13 and 11.x before 11.0.10 on Windows and OS X allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-8460 and CVE-2014-9159.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@adobe.com — http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/reader/apsb14-28.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosaffected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobeacrobat10.0
adobeacrobat10.0.1
adobeacrobat10.0.2
adobeacrobat10.0.3
adobeacrobat10.1
adobeacrobat10.1.1
adobeacrobat10.1.2
adobeacrobat10.1.3
adobeacrobat10.1.4
adobeacrobat10.1.5
adobeacrobat10.1.6
adobeacrobat10.1.7
adobeacrobat10.1.8
adobeacrobat10.1.9
adobeacrobat10.1.10
adobeacrobat10.1.11
adobeacrobat10.1.12
adobeacrobat11.0
adobeacrobat11.0.1
adobeacrobat11.0.2
adobeacrobat11.0.3
adobeacrobat11.0.4
adobeacrobat11.0.5
adobeacrobat11.0.6
adobeacrobat11.0.7
adobeacrobat11.0.8
adobeacrobat11.0.9
adobeacrobat_reader10.0
adobeacrobat_reader10.0.1
adobeacrobat_reader10.0.2
adobeacrobat_reader10.0.3
adobeacrobat_reader10.1
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.1
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.2
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.3
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.4
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.5
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.6
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.7
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.8
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.9
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.10
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.11
adobeacrobat_reader10.1.12
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.0
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.01
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.02
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.03
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.04
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.05
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.06
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.07
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.08
adobeacrobat_reader11.0.09

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.