Cross-site scripting in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader - CVE-2009-3956

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Cross-site scripting in Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader - CVE-2009-3956

Published: December 19, 2016 / Updated: January 9, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU1395
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2009-3956
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The weakness exists due to incorrect filtration of input data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim’s browser in security context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.

Affected software

Adobe Acrobat
Adobe Reader
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop

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