CVE-2009-2998: Adobe Acrobat

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 10.5% 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 do not properly validate input, which might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-3458.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat: version 7.0 only; version 7.0.1 only; version 7.0.2 only; version 7.0.3 only; version 7.0.4 only; version 7.0.5 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.