CVE-2012-1530
Heap-based buffer overflow in the XSLT engine in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.5.3, 10.x before 10.1.5, and 11.x before 11.0.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a PDF file containing…
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (8.57%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the XSLT engine in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.5.3, 10.x before 10.1.5, and 11.x before 11.0.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a PDF file containing an XSL file that triggers memory corruption when the lang function processes XML data with a crafted node-set.
- CVSS 2.0
- 10.0 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- EPSS
- 8.57% probability · 95th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- adobe/acrobat · adobe/acrobat reader
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 8.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00028.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00081.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0150.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-03.xml
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-02.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/products-and-services/network-intelligence-availability/idefense/public-vulnerability-reports/articles/index.xhtml?id=1019
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16094
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00004.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00028.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-01/msg00081.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0150.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-03.xml
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-02.htmlPatch, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.verisigninc.com/en_US/products-and-services/network-intelligence-availability/idefense/public-vulnerability-reports/articles/index.xhtml?id=1019
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16094
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.