CVE-2014-0496 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Use-After-Free

What is CVE-2014-0496?

CVE-2014-0496 is a high-severity use after free vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 15 Jan 2014. 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

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.1.9 and 11.x before 11.0.06 on Windows and Mac OS X allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-416

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-0496?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Adobe Acrobat.

How do I fix CVE-2014-0496?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-0496 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available. US federal agencies must fix it by 24 Mar 2022.

Upgrade to the fixed version. These bugs are found with fuzzing and sanitisers and avoided by memory-safe languages. More about Use after free.

Is CVE-2014-0496 being exploited?

Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2014-0496 in the wild since at least 3 Mar 2022.

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-2013-3346 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-2729 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Arbitrary Integer Overflow Exploited High 8.8

All Adobe Acrobat vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-h9rj-88q7-9jg3.