CVE-2007-0103 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The Adobe PDF specification 1.3, as implemented by Adobe Acrobat before 8.0.0, allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact, possibly including denial of service (infinite loop), arbitrary code execution, or memory corruption, via a PDF file with a (1) crafted catalog dictionary or (2) a crafted Pages attribute that references an invalid page tree node.

Published: 2007-01-09

Score: 6.8 Medium

EPSS: 34.1% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.34101.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-06-01-2007.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/24479
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21910
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017749
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31364

History

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Subscriptions

Adobe Acrobat Reader

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2007-01-09T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T12:03:37.168Z

Reserved: 2007-01-08T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2007-0103

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2007-01-09T00:28:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2007-0103

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-20

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