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CVE-2012-4161

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4161 is a 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 Mac OS X. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is considered highly severe due to its network-based attack vector and low attack complexity, potentially leading to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. 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
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

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0364 is in the 79th 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 (1)

adobepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

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