CVE-2017-2949 is a heap overflow vulnerability within the XSLT engine of Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 15.020.20042 and earlier, 15.006.30244 and earlier, and 11.0.18 and earlier, impacting systems running Adobe, Apple, and Microsoft products. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.8) requires user interaction (UI:R) and local access (AV:L) but has low attack complexity (AC:L), potentially leading to arbitrary code execution with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. While no public exploit code is available on Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, it has received some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness of the flaw.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 11.0.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 15.006.30244CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_dc:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* | ||
<= 15.020.20042CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_dc:*:*:*:*:continuous:*:*:* | ||
<= 15.006.30244CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader_dc:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* | ||
<= 15.020.20042CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader_dc:*:*:*:*:continuous:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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