CVE-2011-2462
9.8, critical Known exploitedAdobe Reader and Acrobat Universal 3D Memory Corruption Vulnerability
- CVSS
- 9.8, critical critical CVSS v3.1
- EPSS, next 30 days
- 89% higher than 99.7% of scored CVEs
- Exploitation
- Confirmed in the wild
- Published
- 7 Dec 201114 years ago
Known exploited
CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 8 Jun 2022. US federal agencies had to remediate by 22 Jun 2022, a deadline that has passed.
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Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the U3D component in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.1.1 and earlier on Windows and Mac OS X, and Adobe Reader 9.x through 9.4.6 on UNIX, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in December 2011.
Details
- Vendor
- Adobe and 3 more
- Product
- Acrobat
- Weakness
- CWE-787 (opens in a new tab)
- Status
- Analyzed
- Updated
- 16 Jun 2026
- Assigner
- psirt@adobe.com
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References 10
Advisories 7
- lists.opensuse.org /opensuse-security-announce/2012-01/msg00019.html (opens in a new tab)
- lists.opensuse.org /opensuse-security-announce/2012-01/msg00020.html (opens in a new tab)
- adobe.com /support/security/advisories/apsa11-04.html (opens in a new tab)
- adobe.com /support/security/bulletins/apsb11-30.html (opens in a new tab)
- adobe.com /support/security/bulletins/apsb12-01.html (opens in a new tab)
- us-cert.gov /cas/techalerts/TA11-350A.html (opens in a new tab)
- oval.cisecurity.org /repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14562 (opens in a new tab)
The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.
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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.