CVE-2003-0434 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2003-0434?

CVE-2003-0434 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 18 Jun 2003. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Various PDF viewers including (1) Adobe Acrobat 5.06 and (2) Xpdf 1.01 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an embedded hyperlink.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2003-0434?

It affects 7 products.

Products include Adobe Acrobat, Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux, Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server, Redhat Enterprise Linux, Redhat Linux, Redhat Linux Advanced Workstation and 1 more.

How do I fix CVE-2003-0434?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2003-0434 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2003-0434 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat

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• CVE-2014-0546 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Sandbox Bypass Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0496 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-3346 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8

All Adobe Acrobat vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2003-0434, GHSA-857w-p662-mpmp.