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CVE-2007-0048

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-0048 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Adobe Acrobat Reader plugins, specifically versions before 8.0.0, and potentially 7.x, 8.x, and 9.x when used with Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Opera. An attacker can trigger excessive memory consumption by appending a long sequence of hash characters to a PDF URL, leading to a denial of service. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (medium), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable with low attack complexity and requires no authentication, but only impacts availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 7.0.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:elements:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:7.0:*:professional:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:7.0:*:standard:*:*:*:*:*
7.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:7.0.1:*:professional:*:*:*:*:*
7.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:7.0.1:*:standard:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
31.74%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3174 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

events.ccc.de / congress/2006/Fahrplan/attachments/1158-Subverting_Ajax.pdf
googlechromereleases.blogspot.com / 2009/01/stable-beta-update-yahoo-mail-and.html
lists.suse.com / archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0012.html
osvdb.org / 31596
secunia.com / advisories/23812
secunia.com / advisories/23882
secunia.com / advisories/33754
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200701-16.xml
securityreason.com / securityalert/2090
securitytracker.com / id
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/31273
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6348
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb07-01.html
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/455801/100/0/threaded
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA09-286B.html
US Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/0032
vupen.com / english/advisories/2009/2898
wisec.it / vulns.php
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