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CVE-2018-4888
HIGH · CVSS 8.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-02-27T05:29:00.843 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:59:13.660

Summary

An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat Reader 2018.009.20050 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30070 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30394 and earlier versions. This vulnerability is an instance of a use after free vulnerability. The vulnerability is triggered by a crafted PDF file that can cause a memory access violation exception in the XFA engine because of a dangling reference left as a consequence of freeing an object in the computation that manipulates internal nodes in a graph representation of a document object model used in XFA. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

adobe — acrobat

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References

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