CVE-2016-4254 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat on Windows and OS X, including specific versions of Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Classic and Continuous. This vulnerability, with a CVSS v3 score of 9.8, allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service through unspecified vectors, requiring no user interaction. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community. Adobe has released updates to address this and numerous other security vulnerabilities.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 11.0.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 15.006.30174CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_dc:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* | ||
<= 15.016.20045CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_dc:*:*:*:*:continuous:*:*:* | ||
<= 15.006.30174CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader_dc:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* | ||
<= 15.016.20045CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader_dc:*:*:*:*:continuous:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.