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CVE-2012-4151

34
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4151 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 9.x before 9.5.2 and 10.x before 10.1.4 on both Windows and Mac OS X. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution or cause a denial of service through unspecified vectors. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it represents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While the vulnerability is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and lacks public exploit intelligence or community discussion, its high FAUCET Risk Score of 92/100 indicates significant potential impact.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:9:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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:*:*:*:*:*

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
7.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0753 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 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
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: acroread
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: acroread

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-4151Critical

acroread: multiple code execution flaw (APSB12-16)

Aug 14, 2012

References

security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201308-03.xml
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16243
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb12-16.html
PatchVendor Advisory