CVE-2015-6699

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Published 2015-10-14 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.3

Description

The addForegroundSprite function in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.1.16 and 11.x before 11.0.13, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Classic before 2015.006.30094, and Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Continuous before 2015.009.20069 on Windows and OS X allows attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory via invalid arguments, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-6697, CVE-2015-6700, CVE-2015-6701, CVE-2015-6702, CVE-2015-6703, and CVE-2015-6704.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
macos	-	not-affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
adobe	acrobat	`{"startIncluding":"10.0","endIncluding":"10.1.15"}`
adobe	acrobat_dc	`{"startIncluding":"15.006.30060","endExcluding":"15.006.30094"}`	`15.006.30094`
adobe	acrobat_reader	`{"startIncluding":"10.0","endIncluding":"10.1.15"}`
adobe	acrobat_reader_dc	`{"startIncluding":"15.006.30060","endExcluding":"15.006.30094"}`	`15.006.30094`

References

CWEs

CWE-772

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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