CVE-2017-3120 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability affecting Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 2017.009.20058 and earlier, 2017.008.30051 and earlier, 2015.006.30306 and earlier, and 11.0.20 and earlier. This flaw resides in the XFA parsing engine and can lead to arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8 (HIGH), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and resulting in high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is readily available, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, though it is not listed on the CISA KEV catalog as actively exploited.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 11.0.0, < 11.0.21CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 15.000.0000, < 15.006.30355CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_dc:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* | ||
>= 17.000.0000, <= 17.011.30066CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_dc:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* | ||
>= 17.000.0000, < 17.012.20098CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_dc:*:*:*:*:continuous:*:*:* | ||
>= 15.000.0000, < 15.006.30355CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader_dc:*:*:*:*:classic:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.