CVE-2009-1862

highpriority · act · 90OT risk · criticalKEV · exploitedEPSS 0.212 · 98 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP0 · Act now

Exploitable?

Yes · in the wild

CISA KEV

Likely / severe?

21.2% (98th) EPSS

CVSS 9.3 · high

Is it mine?

5 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

2 sources

enisa_euvd · nvd

added 2022-06-08remediate by 2022-06-22

required action For Adobe Acrobat and Reader, apply updates per vendor instructions. For Adobe Flash Player, the impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Adobe Acrobat and Reader, Flash Player Unspecified Vulnerability

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x through 9.1.2, and Adobe Flash Player 9.x through 9.0.159.0 and 10.x through 10.0.22.87, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via (1) a crafted Flash application in a .pdf file or (2) a crafted .swf file, related to authplay.dll, as exploited in the wild in July 2009.

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

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondaryexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-787USprimary

ATT&CK techniques

ATT&CK techniques this enables or maps to.

T1204.002Malicious File — This vulnerability is exploited through a user opening a maliciously-crafted pdf file or swf file.exploitation

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
adobe acrobat9.0 → 9.1.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
adobe acrobat reader9.0 → 9.1.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat_reader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
adobe flash player10.0 → 10.0.22.87nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
adobe flash player9.0 → 9.0.159.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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 2009-07-23modified 2026-06-16

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references (41)

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