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CVE-2009-2028

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-2028 describes multiple unspecified vulnerabilities affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 7, 8, and 9 prior to their respective patched releases. These vulnerabilities carry a critical CVSS score of 10.0, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the exact nature of these "Adobe internally discovered issues" remains undisclosed, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:7.0.1:*:professional:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0437 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 51,553 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, 0.1 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 (4)

adobepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 3Fixed in: acroread-0:8.1.6-1
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: acroread-0:8.1.6-1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: acroread-0:8.1.6-2.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-2028Critical

acroread: multiple security fixes in version 8.1.6 (APSB09-07)

Jun 9, 2009

References

secunia.com / advisories/35496
secunia.com / advisories/35734
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200907-06.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/51126
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb09-07.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2009-1109.html