CVE-2003-0142

Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread) 6, under certain circumstances when running with the "Certified plug-ins only" option disabled, loads plug-ins with signatures used for older versions of Acrobat, which can allow attackers to cause Acrobat to enter Certified mode and run untrusted plugins by modifying the CTIsCertifiedMode function.

CVSS v2.0 5.0 MEDIUM

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CVSS v2.0 : MEDIUM

V2 Legend

Vector : AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 2.9

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact NONE

References

Link	Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/328224	Vendor Advisory
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/689835	US Government Resource

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Information

Published : 2003-08-17 21:00

Updated : 2008-09-05 13:33

NVD link : CVE-2003-0142

Mitre link : CVE-2003-0142

JSON object : View

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Products Affected

adobe

acrobat_reader

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