CVE-2004-1598: Adobe Acrobat

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader 6.0 allow remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a PDF file that contains an embedded Shockwave (swf) file that references files outside of the temporary directory.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat: version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only
• Adobe Acrobat Reader: version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only

Published 2004-10-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.