CVE-2016-7019

CVE-2016-7019 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions prior to 11.0.18, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Classic before 15.006.30243, and Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Continuous before 15.020.20039 on both Windows and OS X. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service through unspecified vectors. With a CVSS v3 score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, requiring no user interaction or privileges. Successful exploitation can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the affected system. While there is no evidence of active exploitation in the wild, nor publicly available exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the security community. It is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog.