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CVE-2007-5663

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-5663 describes a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 8.1.1 and earlier, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through specially crafted PDF files leveraging an insecure JavaScript method in the EScript.api plug-in. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication and having complete impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, though it requires medium attack complexity. Despite its high severity and FAUCET Risk Score of 97/100, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 8.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 8.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.3HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
13.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1327 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 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 (4)

adobepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 3Fixed in: acroread-0:8.1.2-1.el3.6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: acroread-0:8.1.2-1.el4.2
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: acroread-0:8.1.2-1.el5.3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-5663Critical

acroread JavaScript Insecure Method Exposure

Feb 8, 2008

References

labs.idefense.com / intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php
secunia.com / advisories/29065
secunia.com / advisories/29205
secunia.com / advisories/30840
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200803-01.xml
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9928
sunsolve.sun.com / search/document.do
adobe.com / support/security/advisories/apsa08-01.html
Patch
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb08-13.html
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/140129
US Government Resource
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2008-0144.html
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA08-043A.html
US Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1966/references