CVE-2007-5659: Adobe Acrobat and Reader Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

High severity, CVSS 7.8. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2022-06-08. EPSS: 87.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.1.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with long arguments to unspecified JavaScript methods. NOTE: this issue might be subsumed by CVE-2008-0655.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat: before 8.1.2 (fixed in 8.1.2)
• Adobe Acrobat Reader: before 8.1.2 (fixed in 8.1.2)

Published 2008-02-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.