CVE-2009-1492

highpriority · attend · 56EPSS 0.255 · 98 %ileexploit · functionalEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · functional

Likely / severe?

25.5% (98th) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

7 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The getAnnots Doc method in the JavaScript API in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.1, 8.1.4, 7.1.1, and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a PDF file that contains an annotation, and has an OpenAction entry with JavaScript code that calls this method with crafted integer arguments.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.3

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 10

v2.09.3highAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-399USprimary

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

EDB-8569Adobe Reader 8.1.4/9.1 - 'GetAnnots()' Remote Code Executionfunctional · exploit_db

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
adobe acrobat7.0 → 7.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
adobe acrobat8.0 → 8.1.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
adobe acrobat9.0 → 9.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
adobe acrobat reader7.0 → 7.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
adobe acrobat reader8.0 → 8.1.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
adobe acrobat reader9.0 → 9.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (2)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2009-04-30modified 2026-06-16

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references (54)

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