CVE-2016-1008

high

Published 2016-03-09 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

8.4

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/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

8.4

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat before 11.0.15, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Classic before 15.006.30121, and Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Continuous before 15.010.20060 on Windows and OS X allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse DLL in an unspecified directory.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

80%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
macos		not-affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
adobe	acrobat	`{"endIncluding":"11.0.14"}`
adobe	acrobat_dc	`{"endIncluding":"15.006.30119"}`
adobe	acrobat_reader	`{"endIncluding":"11.0.14"}`
adobe	acrobat_reader_dc	`{"endIncluding":"15.010.20059"}`
adobe	acrobat_reader_dc	`15.006.30119`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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

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