{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 3 products.","exploited":"Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2008-2992 in the wild since at least 3 Mar 2022, including in ransomware campaigns.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch. US federal agencies must fix it by 24 Mar 2022.","what":"CVE-2008-2992 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 4 Nov 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2008-2992 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2008-2992 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 4 Nov 2008. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2008-2992 in the wild since at least 3 Mar 2022, including in ransomware campaigns.\n\nAffected product: Adobe Acrobat. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2992/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2992/index.md)","id":"CVE-2008-2992","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2992/index.md","name":"CVE-2008-2992","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-c6vf-qwc3-92qf"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Adobe Acrobat Reader","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file exploiting a stack-based buffer overflow in Adobe Acrobat and Reader.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"acrobat","vendor":"adobe"},{"product":"acrobat_reader","vendor":"adobe"},{"product":"solaris","vendor":"oracle"}],"cvss":{"score":7.8,"severity":"high","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-787","name":"Out-of-bounds Write"}],"description":"Stack-based buffer overflow in Adobe Acrobat and Reader 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file that calls the util.printf JavaScript function with a crafted format string argument, a related issue to CVE-2008-1104.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":4,"first_seen":"2008-02-08","github_poc":1,"max_poc_stars":0,"metasploit":2,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2008-02-08","kind":"metasploit","ref":"exploit/windows/browser/adobe_utilprintf","stars":null,"title":"Adobe util.printf() Buffer Overflow"},{"date":"2008-02-08","kind":"metasploit","ref":"exploit/windows/fileformat/adobe_utilprintf","stars":null,"title":"Adobe util.printf() Buffer Overflow"},{"date":"2008-11-05","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"6994","stars":null,"title":"Adobe Reader - 'util.printf()' JavaScript Function Stack Overflow (1)"},{"date":"2008-11-05","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"7006","stars":null,"title":"Adobe Reader - 'util.printf()' JavaScript Function Stack Overflow (2)"},{"date":"2010-05-03","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"16504","stars":null,"title":"Adobe - 'util.printf()' Local Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (1)"},{"date":"2010-09-25","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"16624","stars":null,"title":"Adobe - 'util.printf()' Local Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (2)"},{"date":"2026-04-15T06:02:18Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/Jonas-Holmberg/CVE-2008-2992","stars":0,"title":"Writeup och POC för CVE-2008-2992"}],"tier":"exploited"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Adobe Reader and Acrobat Input Validation","id":"CVE-2008-2992","indexable":true,"kev":{"dateAdded":"2022-03-03","dueDate":"2022-03-24","knownRansomwareCampaignUse":"Known","product":"Acrobat and Reader","requiredAction":"Apply updates per vendor instructions.","vendorProject":"Adobe","vulnerabilityName":"Adobe Reader and Acrobat Input Validation Vulnerability"},"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"adobe:acrobat","products":["adobe:acrobat","adobe:acrobat_reader","oracle:solaris"],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2008"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":27,"next":{"headline":"Path traversal in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-2993"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in n/a","id":"CVE-2008-2991"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2008-11-04","related":[{"cvss_score":9.6,"headline":"Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2021-28550","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-09-02"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Adobe Acrobat and Reader Heap-based Buffer Overflow","id":"CVE-2021-21017","kev_date_added":"2021-11-03","published":"2021-02-11"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Adobe Reader and Acrobat Sandbox Bypass","id":"CVE-2014-0546","kev_date_added":"2022-05-25","published":"2014-08-12"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Adobe Reader and Acrobat Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2014-0496","kev_date_added":"2022-03-03","published":"2014-01-15"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Adobe Reader and Acrobat Memory Corruption","id":"CVE-2013-3346","kev_date_added":"2022-03-03","published":"2013-08-30"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Adobe Reader and Acrobat Arbitrary Integer Overflow","id":"CVE-2013-2729","kev_date_added":"2022-03-28","published":"2013-05-16"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Adobe Reader and Acrobat Universal 3D Memory Corruption","id":"CVE-2011-2462","kev_date_added":"2022-06-08","published":"2011-12-07"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0 1.0","name":"CISA KEV"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"BSD-3-Clause","name":"Metasploit"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"active","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-10-22","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file exploiting a stack-based buffer overflow in Adobe Acrobat and Reader.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2008-2992/"}