Adobe Acrobat Reader Base URI Unicode String Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

EIP-47ea5148

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the IA32.api module of Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC. Upon parsing a specially crafted PDF document containing URI entries with URI dictionaries and a specially crafted base URL defined with raw Unicode strings can trigger the vulnerability to achieve remote code execution.

Vulnerability Identifiers

  • Exodus Intelligence: EIP-47ea5148
  • MITRE CVE: CVE-2021-39863

Vulnerability Metrics

  • CVSSv2 Score: 8.8

Vendor References

Discovery Credit

  • Exodus Intelligence

Disclosure Timeline

  • Disclosed to affected vendor: June 28th, 2021
  • Disclosed to public: September 14th, 2021

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