CVE-2017-16372

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 issue is due to untrusted pointer dereference in the JavaScript API engine. In this scenario, the JavaScript input is crafted in way that the computation results with pointer to memory locations that do not belong to the relevant process address space. The dereferencing operation is a read operation, and an attack can result with sensitive data exposure.

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

Vendor	Product	Versions
adobe	acrobat	`{"endIncluding":"11.0.22"}`
adobe	acrobat_dc	`{"startIncluding":"-","endIncluding":"17.012.20098"}`
adobe	acrobat_reader	`{"endIncluding":"11.0.22"}`
adobe	acrobat_reader_dc	`{"startIncluding":"-","endIncluding":"17.012.20098"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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