CVE-2014-9150 Race condition in n/a

Medium 6.4 Published Updated

Attackers can bypass sandbox protections and write arbitrary files via a race condition in Adobe Reader, requiring user interaction to open a malicious document.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2014-9150?

CVE-2014-9150 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 30 Nov 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

Race condition in the MoveFileEx call hook feature in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 11.x before 11.0.09 on Windows allows attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism, and consequently write to files in arbitrary locations, via an NTFS junction attack, a similar issue to CVE-2014-0568.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9150?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9150?

No fix has been published for CVE-2014-9150 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2014-9150 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9150 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Adobe Acrobat vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-x8vq-jv88-c5cc.

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