{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2009-3431 exists.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2009-3431 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 25 Sep 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2009-3431 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2009-3431 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 25 Sep 2009. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2009-3431 exists.\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-2009-3431/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-3431/index.md)","id":"CVE-2009-3431","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-3431/index.md","name":"CVE-2009-3431","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-7phm-f5vw-fc7p"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Adobe Reader","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can crash Adobe Reader by sending a PDF with excessive square brackets in an alert argument, requiring user interaction to open the file.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"acrobat","vendor":"adobe"},{"product":"acrobat_reader","vendor":"adobe"}],"cvss":{"score":5,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P","version":"2.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-119","name":"Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer"}],"description":"Stack consumption vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1.3, 9.1.2, 9.1.1, and earlier 9.x versions; 8.1.6 and earlier 8.x versions; and possibly 7.1.4 and earlier 7.x versions allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a PDF file with a large number of [ (open square bracket) characters in the argument to the alert method. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":1,"first_seen":"2009-05-29","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2009-05-29","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"33017","stars":null,"title":"Adobe Acrobat 9.1.3 - Stack Exhaustion Denial of Service"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-3431","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"adobe:acrobat","products":["adobe:acrobat","adobe:acrobat_reader"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2009"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":6,"next":{"headline":"Information disclosure in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-3432"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"SQL injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2009-3430"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2009-09-25","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":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-07","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can crash Adobe Reader by sending a PDF with excessive square brackets in an alert argument, requiring user interaction to open the file.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2009-3431/"}