CVE-2016-1090: Adobe Acrobat

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat before 11.0.16, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Classic before 15.006.30172, and Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Continuous before 15.016.20039 on Windows and OS X allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse resource in an unspecified directory, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-1087 and CVE-2016-4106.

Affected products

• Adobe Acrobat: up to and including 11.0.15
• Adobe Acrobat DC: up to and including 15.006.30121; up to and including 15.010.20060
• Adobe Acrobat Reader DC: up to and including 15.006.30121; up to and including 15.010.20060
• Adobe Reader: up to and including 11.0.15

Published 2016-05-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.