VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-4257

critical
Published 2016-09-16 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Adobe Digital Editions before 4.5.2 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4256, CVE-2016-4258, CVE-2016-4259, CVE-2016-4260, CVE-2016-4261, and CVE-2016-4262.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@adobe.com — https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/Digital-Editions/apsb16-28.html

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobedigital_editions{"endIncluding":"4.5.1"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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