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CVE-2013-2730

83
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-2730 is a critical buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 9.x, 10.x, and 11.x prior to their respective patched versions. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with maximum impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS score of 10.0 and an EPSS score indicating high exploitability, this vulnerability poses a significant risk. Exploit code, including a Metasploit module, is publicly available, demonstrating its practical exploitability, though there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
11.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:11.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:11.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:10.0:-: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
78.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: AdobeCollabSync Buffer Overflow Adobe Reader X Sandbox Bypass · May 14, 2013
ExploitDB: EDB-25725 · May 26, 2013
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.7876 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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
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-2013-2730Critical

acroread: multiple code execution flaws (APSB13-15)

May 14, 2013

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-05/msg00004.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0826.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201308-03.xml
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16631
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb13-15.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/59923
Exploit