CVE-2006-6236: Adobe Acrobat Reader

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 20.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Reader (Adobe Acrobat Reader) 7.0 through 7.0.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument string to the (1) src, (2) setPageMode, (3) setLayoutMode, and (4) setNamedDest methods in an AcroPDF ActiveX control, a different set of vectors than CVE-2006-6027.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat Reader: version 7.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.0.2 only; version 7.0.3 only; version 7.0.4 only; version 7.0.5 only; …

Published 2006-12-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.