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CVE-2013-2729

94
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-2729 is an integer overflow vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 9.x, 10.x, and 11.x, allowing for arbitrary code execution. This critical vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating a network-exploitable flaw with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. It is actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its presence in the KEV catalog, and has garnered significant community attention with numerous discussions. While no Metasploit or Nuclei exploits are listed, an ExploitDB entry for a related heap corruption vulnerability in Adobe Reader X exists.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 9.0, < 9.5.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 10.0, < 10.1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.0, < 11.0.03CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 9.0, < 9.5.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 10.0, < 10.1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
66.55%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Mar 28, 2022
ExploitDB: EDB-26703 · Jul 8, 2013
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6655 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 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)

adobepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: acroread-0:9.5.5-1.el5_9
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: acroread-0:9.5.5-1.el6_4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2013-2729Critical

acroread: multiple code execution flaws (APSB13-15)

May 14, 2013

References

github.com / cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/199
Issue Tracking
cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00004.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0826.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%3A16717
Broken Link
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb13-15.html
Not ApplicablePatchVendor Advisory