CVE-2003-0142: Adobe Acrobat Reader

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat Reader: version 6.0 only

Published 2003-08-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.