CVE-2009-1492: Adobe Acrobat

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 25.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The getAnnots Doc method in the JavaScript API in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1, 8.1.4, 7.1.1, and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a PDF file that contains an annotation, and has an OpenAction entry with JavaScript code that calls this method with crafted integer arguments.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat: from 7.0, up to and including 7.1.1; from 8.0, up to and including 8.1.4; from 9.0, up to and including 9.1
• Adobe Acrobat Reader: from 7.0, up to and including 7.1.1; from 8.0, up to and including 8.1.4; from 9.0, up to and including 9.1

Published 2009-04-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.