CVE-2009-1862 vulnerability in Adobe Products
Published on July 23, 2009
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This Adobe Acrobat and Reader, Flash Player Unspecified Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Adobe Acrobat and Reader and Adobe Flash Player allows remote attackers to execute code or cause denial-of-service.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by June 22, 2022: For Adobe Acrobat and Reader, apply updates per vendor instructions. For Adobe Flash Player, the impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2009-1862 is exploitable with local system access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a Memory Corruption Vulnerability?
The software writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Typically, this can result in corruption of data, a crash, or code execution. The software may modify an index or perform pointer arithmetic that references a memory location that is outside of the boundaries of the buffer. A subsequent write operation then produces undefined or unexpected results.
CVE-2009-1862 has been classified to as a Memory Corruption vulnerability or weakness.
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Exploit Probability
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