Kaspersky ID:
KLA11193
Detect Date:
02/13/2018
Updated:
01/28/2026

Description

Multiple serious vulnerabilities have been found in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader. Malicious users can exploit these vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code and gain priveleges.

Below is a complete list of vulnerabilities:

  1. Use-after-free vulnerabilities can be exploited to execute arbitrary code;
  2. Heap buffer overflow vulnerabilities can be exploited to execute arbitrary code;
  3. Out-of-bounds write vulnerabilities can be exploited to execute arbitrary code;
  4. Security Mitigation Bypass vulnerability can be exploited remotely to gain priveleges;
  5. Out-of-bounds read vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely to execute arbitrary code;

Original advisories

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Malware exists for this vulnerability. Usually such malware is classified as Exploit. More details.

Related products

CVE list

  • CVE-2018-4872
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4890
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4904
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4910
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4917
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4888
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4892
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4902
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4911
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4913
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4879
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4895
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4898
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4901
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4915
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4916
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4918
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4880
    high
  • CVE-2018-4881
    high
  • CVE-2018-4882
    high
  • CVE-2018-4883
    high
  • CVE-2018-4884
    high
  • CVE-2018-4885
    high
  • CVE-2018-4886
    high
  • CVE-2018-4887
    high
  • CVE-2018-4889
    high
  • CVE-2018-4891
    high
  • CVE-2018-4893
    high
  • CVE-2018-4894
    high
  • CVE-2018-4896
    high
  • CVE-2018-4897
    high
  • CVE-2018-4899
    high
  • CVE-2018-4900
    high
  • CVE-2018-4903
    high
  • CVE-2018-4905
    high
  • CVE-2018-4906
    high
  • CVE-2018-4907
    high
  • CVE-2018-4908
    high
  • CVE-2018-4909
    high
  • CVE-2018-4912
    high
  • CVE-2018-4914
    high
  • CVE-2018-4998
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4997
    critical
  • CVE-2018-4999
    high

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