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CVE-2012-4170

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CVE-2012-4170 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Photoshop CS6 versions 13.x prior to 13.0.1, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code through a specially crafted file. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this critical vulnerability has a network-based attack vector, medium attack complexity, and results in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an ExploitDB entry (EDB-20971) exists for a heap overflow related to PNG parsing, and it garnered significant community discussion and media coverage at the time of its disclosure.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
13.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:photoshop_cs6:13.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
11.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-20971 · Sep 1, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1136 is in the 77th percentile among its peer group of 8,913 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

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

adobevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb12-20.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/55333
securitytracker.com / id