CVE-2017-11241

high

Published 2017-08-11 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

VIR risk

8.8

Description

Adobe Acrobat Reader 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier has an exploitable heap overflow vulnerability in the image conversion engine when processing Enhanced Metafile Format (EMF) data related to polygons. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
macos		not-affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
adobe	acrobat	`{"startIncluding":"11.0.0","endIncluding":"11.0.20"}`
adobe	acrobat_dc	`{"startIncluding":"15.006.30060","endIncluding":"15.006.30306"}`
adobe	acrobat_reader	`{"startIncluding":"17.011.00000","endIncluding":"17.011.30066"}`
adobe	acrobat_reader_dc	`{"startIncluding":"15.006.30060","endIncluding":"15.006.30306"}`
adobe	reader	`{"startIncluding":"11.0.0","endIncluding":"11.0.20"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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