SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-0954

Adobe Digital Editions before 4.5.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

EXPLOIT ✓CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 18.3%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 18.3%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

Adobe Digital Editions before 4.5.1 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors.

CVSS 3.0
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
18.26% probability · 97th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 9 March 2016
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-119
Affected
adobe/digital editions
Source
psirt@adobe.com
EPSS trend
0%10%20%21 September 2026: 16.81%22 September 2026: 19.13%4 November 2026: 18.26%21 September 20264 November 2026

EPSS moved from 16.8% on 21 September 2026 to 18.3% on 4 November 2026, peaking at 19.1% on 22 September 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-39533source ↗Adobe Digital Editions 4.5.0 - '.pdf' Critical Memory Corruptionwindows · Pier-Luc Maltaisdos9 March 2016yes

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.