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CVE-2011-0593

55
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-0593 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 10.x prior to 10.0.1, 9.x prior to 9.4.2, and 8.x prior to 8.2.6 on both Windows and Mac OS X. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted Universal 3D (U3D) file, which triggers the overflow during decompression. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring medium attack complexity but granting complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, the potential for significant impact necessitates patching.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:8.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:8.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:8.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
49.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.4954 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 8,915 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 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 4Fixed in: acroread-0:9.4.2-1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: acroread-0:9.4.2-3.el6_0
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: acroread-0:9.4.2-1.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-0593Critical

acroread: critical APSB11-03

Feb 8, 2011

References

secunia.com / advisories/43470
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A12258
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb11-03.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-0301.html
securityfocus.com / bid/46211
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0337
Vendor Advisory
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0492
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-11-069