CVE-2009-2996: Adobe Acrobat

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Reader and Acrobat 7.x before 7.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7, and 9.x before 9.2 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2985.

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.