CVE-2005-2470: Adobe Acrobat

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 13.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in a "core application plug-in" for Adobe Reader 5.1 through 7.0.2 and Acrobat 5.0 through 7.0.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Affected products

  • Adobe Acrobat: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.5 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only; version 7.0 only; …
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader: version 5.1 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.1 only; version 6.0.2 only; version 6.0.3 only; version 7.0 only; …

Published 2005-08-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.