VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-16367

high
Published 2017-12-09 · 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
CVSS v2
9.3
VIR risk
8.8

Description

An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 2017.012.20098 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30066 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30355 and earlier versions, and 11.0.22 and earlier versions. This vulnerability is an instance of a type confusion overflow vulnerability. The vulnerability leads to an out of bounds memory access. Attackers can exploit the vulnerability by using the out of bounds access for unintended reads or writes -- potentially leading to code corruption, control-flow hijack, or an information leak attack.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
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/acrobat/apsb17-36.html

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobeacrobat{"endIncluding":"11.0.22"}
adobeacrobat_dc{"startIncluding":"-","endIncluding":"17.012.20098"}
adobeacrobat_reader{"endIncluding":"11.0.22"}
adobeacrobat_reader_dc{"startIncluding":"-","endIncluding":"17.012.20098"}

References

CWEs

CWE-704

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