CVE-2007-0048 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2007-0048?

CVE-2007-0048 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 3 Jan 2007. 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

Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin before 8.0.0, and possibly the plugin distributed with Adobe Reader 7.x before 7.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7, and 9.x before 9.2, when used with Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Opera, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a long sequence of # (hash) characters appended to a PDF URL, related to a "cross-site scripting issue."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2007-0048?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat 3d, Adobe Acrobat Reader.

How do I fix CVE-2007-0048?

No fix has been published for CVE-2007-0048 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2007-0048 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2007-0048 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat

• CVE-2021-28550 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2021-21017 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Heap-based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• 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
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Also known as GHSA-2v7m-vcpp-x8c4.