CVE-2009-0927
Published 2009-03-19 · Updated 2026-06-16 · Source cve@mitre.org
Summary
CVE-2009-0927 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 25, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by April 15, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Adobe has 83 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 11 of them linked to ransomware.
All 83 known-exploited Adobe vulnerabilities →Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat 9 before 9.1, 8 before 8.1.3 , and 7 before 7.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted argument to the getIcon method of a Collab object, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-0658.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Adobe — Reader and Acrobat
Name: Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Date added: 2022-03-25 · Due: 2022-04-15
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-04/msg00010.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34490
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34706
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34790
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-17.xml
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-256788-1
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-04.html

