CVE-2009-2979: Adobe Acrobat

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.2, 8.x before 8.1.7, and possibly 7.x through 7.1.4 do not properly perform XMP-XML entity expansion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted document.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat: up to and including 9.1.3; version 7.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.0.2 only; version 7.0.3 only; version 7.0.4 only; …
• Adobe Acrobat Reader: up to and including 9.1.3; version 7.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.0.2 only; version 7.0.3 only; version 7.0.4 only; …

Published 2009-10-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.