Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2012-4158

32
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4158 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 9.x prior to 9.5.2 and 10.x prior to 10.1.4 on both Windows and Mac OS X. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it represents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector and complete compromise potential for confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been identified, its high FAUCET Risk Score of 92/100 indicates its inherent danger.

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 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0753 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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-2012-4158Critical

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%3A16236
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb12-16.html
PatchVendor Advisory