Acrobat Reader | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

• adobe acrobat24.0.0 and later · before 24.001.30429
• adobe acrobat dc15.008.20082 and later · before 26.002.21901
• adobe acrobat reader dc15.008.20082 and later · before 26.002.21901

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (adobe). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

• Adobe Acrobat 2024

  • 24.001.30429not affected
  • up to and including 24.001.30383affected

• Adobe Acrobat Reader

  • 26.002.21901not affected
  • up to and including 26.002.21900affected

• Adobe Adobe Acrobat

  • 26.002.21901not affected
  • up to and including 26.002.21900affected

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

• CVE-2011-2462Unspecified vulnerability in the U3D component in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.1.1 and earlier on Windows and Mac OS X, and Adobe Reader 9.x KEV
  96Now
• CVE-2013-3346Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.5.5, 10.x before 10.1.7, and 11.x before 11.0.03 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a KEV
  93Now
• CVE-2021-21017Acrobat Reader DC Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability Could Lead To Arbitrary Code ExecutionKEV
  91Now
• CVE-2009-3459Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.x before 7.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7, and 9.x before 9.2 allows remote attackers to exeKEV
  91Now
• CVE-2008-2992Stack-based buffer overflow in Adobe Acrobat and Reader 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file tKEV
  91Now
• CVE-2009-3953The U3D implementation in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3, 8.x before 8.2 on Windows and Mac OS X, and 7.x before 7.1.4 allows remotKEV
  90Now

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Root cause

Code that parses nested structures sets no depth or size limit. A small input can turn into a disproportionate processing load.

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

1function expand(node) {2  return node.children.map(expand);3}

1const MAX_DEPTH = 32;2function expand(node, depth = 0) {3  if (depth > MAX_DEPTH) throw new Error("too deep");4  return node.children.map((c) => expand(c, depth + 1));5}

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.