CVE-2009-3953: Adobe Acrobat and Reader Universal 3D Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

High severity, CVSS 8.8. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2022-06-08. EPSS: 83.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The U3D implementation in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3, 8.x before 8.2 on Windows and Mac OS X, and 7.x before 7.1.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via malformed U3D data in a PDF document, related to a CLODProgressiveMeshDeclaration "array boundary issue," a different vulnerability than CVE-2009-2994.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat: from 7.0, before 7.1.4 (fixed in 7.1.4); from 8.0, before 8.2 (fixed in 8.2); from 9.0, before 9.3 (fixed in 9.3)
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 11.1 only; version 11.2 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise: version 10.0 only
• Suse Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: version 11 only

Published 2010-01-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.