VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-0940

critical
Published 2016-01-14 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat before 11.0.14, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Classic before 15.006.30119, and Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Continuous before 15.010.20056 on Windows and OS X allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0932, CVE-2016-0934, CVE-2016-0937, and CVE-2016-0941.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
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
OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosnot-affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobeacrobat{"endIncluding":"11.0.13"}
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.0
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.1
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.2
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.3
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.4
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.5
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.6
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.7
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.8
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.9
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.10
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.11
adobe adobeacrobat11.0.12
adobe adobeacrobat_dc{"endIncluding":"15.006.30097"}
adobe adobeacrobat_reader_dc{"endIncluding":"15.006.30097"}
adobe adobeacrobat_reader{"endIncluding":"11.0.13"}
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.0
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.1
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.2
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.3
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.4
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.5
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.6
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.7
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.8
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.9
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.10
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.11
adobe adobeacrobat_reader11.0.12

References

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

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