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CVE-2017-2973

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-2973 is a critical heap overflow vulnerability affecting Adobe Digital Editions versions 4.5.3 and earlier. This flaw allows for unauthenticated, remote arbitrary code execution with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been confirmed, its high CVSS score of 9.8 and FAUCET Risk Score of 90/100 indicate significant potential danger. Community discussion and media coverage, though limited, suggest awareness of this vulnerability. Organizations using affected versions should prioritize patching to mitigate this severe risk.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.5.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:digital_editions:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/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
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
9.31%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0931 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Vendor Patches (1)

adobevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

helpx.adobe.com / security/products/Digital-Editions/apsb17-05.html
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/96192
securitytracker.com / id/1037816