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CVE-2012-1530

35
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-1530 is a critical heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 9.x, 10.x, and 11.x. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service through a crafted PDF file containing an XSL file that exploits the XSLT engine's lang function. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:9.0:-:pro:*:*:*:*:*
9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:9.1:-:pro:*:*:*:*:*
9.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:9.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
8.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0857 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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 (3)

adobepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: acroread-0:9.5.3-1.el5_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: acroread-0:9.5.3-1.el6_3
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-1530Critical

acroread: multiple code execution flaws (APSB13-02)

Jan 8, 2013

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00004.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00005.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00028.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00081.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0150.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201308-03.xml
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16094
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb13-02.html
PatchVendor Advisory
verisigninc.com / en_US/products-and-services/network-intelligence-availability/idefense/public-vulnerability-reports/articles/index.xhtml