CVE-2008-2549: Adobe Acrobat Reader

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 52.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Acrobat Reader 8.1.2 and earlier, and before 7.1.1, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malformed PDF document, as demonstrated by 2008-HI2.pdf.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat Reader: up to and including 8.1.2; version 3.0 only; version 4.0 only; version 4.0.5 only; version 4.5 only; version 5.0 only; …

Published 2008-06-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.