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CVE-2013-0641

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-0641 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 9.x, 10.x, and 11.x, impacting users across Windows, macOS, and Linux. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by enticing a user to open a specially crafted PDF document. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), it presents a significant risk due to its low attack complexity and high potential for confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. This vulnerability has been actively exploited in the wild since February 2013, as confirmed by its presence in the KEV catalog, and has garnered substantial community discussion and media coverage despite the lack of public exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 9.0, < 9.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 10.0, < 10.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.0, < 11.0.02CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 10.0, < 10.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.0, < 11.0.02CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
32.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Mar 3, 2022
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3245 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 11,617 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 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: acroread-0:9.5.4-1.el5_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: acroread-0:9.5.4-1.el6
View patch
adobevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-0641Critical

acroread: Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code (APSB13-07)

Feb 13, 2013

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
blog.fireeye.com / research/2013/02/in-turn-its-pdf-time.html
Broken Link
blogs.adobe.com / psirt/2013/02/adobe-reader-and-acrobat-vulnerability-report.html
Broken LinkVendor Advisory
blogs.mcafee.com / mcafee-labs/digging-into-the-sandbox-escape-technique-of-the-recent-pdf-exploit
Broken Link
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00021.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00023.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00024.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0551.html
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201308-03.xml
Third Party Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16296
Broken Link
adobe.com / support/security/advisories/apsa13-02.html
Vendor Advisory
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb13-07.html
Broken Link
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/422807
Third Party AdvisoryUS Government Resource