CVE-2018-4916: Adobe Acrobat

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 15.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat Reader 2018.009.20050 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30070 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30394 and earlier versions. The vulnerability is caused by the computation that writes data past the end of the intended buffer; the computation is part of the image conversion module that handless TIFF data. An attacker can potentially leverage the vulnerability to corrupt sensitive data or execute arbitrary code.

Affected products

  • Adobe Acrobat: from 17.0, up to and including 17.011.30070
  • Adobe Acrobat DC: from -, up to and including 18.009.20050; from 15.0, up to and including 15.006.30394
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader: from 17.0, up to and including 17.011.30070
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader DC: from -, up to and including 18.009.20050; from 15.0, up to and including 15.006.30394

Published 2018-02-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.