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CVE-2012-2023

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-2023 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting Adobe Illustrator versions prior to CS6, including CS5.5. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, its high severity and EPSS score indicate a significant potential risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:illustrator:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:illustrator:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:illustrator:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:illustrator:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:illustrator:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0538 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

adobepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/75446
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb12-10.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/53422
securitytracker.com / id