CVE-2014-0496

highpriority · act · 90OT risk · criticalKEV · exploitedEPSS 0.400 · 99 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP0 · Act now

Exploitable?

Yes · in the wild

CISA KEV

Likely / severe?

40.0% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

Is it mine?

7 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

added 2022-03-03remediate by 2022-03-24

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EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

Adobe Reader and Acrobat Use-After-Free Vulnerability

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.

cvss

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

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 8.8–10

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v3.19.8criticalAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondaryexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/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-416USprimaryCWE-399US

ATT&CK techniques

ATT&CK techniques this enables or maps to.

T1204.002Malicious File — This vulnerability is exploited via a maliciously-crafted file.exploitation

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Adobe Systems Inc. Acrobat Reader10.0 → 10.1.9fstec_bduRU
Adobe Systems Inc. Acrobat Reader11.0 → 11.0.06fstec_bduRU
Adobe Systems Inc. Adobe Acrobat10.0 → 10.1.9fstec_bduRU
Adobe Systems Inc. Adobe Acrobat11.0 → 11.0.6fstec_bduRU
adobe acrobat10.0 → 10.1.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
adobe acrobat11.0 → 11.0.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2014-01-15modified 2026-06-17

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references (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb14-01.html cnnvd
http://secunia.com/advisories/56303 cnnvd
http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb14-01.html enisa_euvd
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029604 enisa_euvd
http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb14-01.htmlVendor Advisorynvd
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1029604Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entrynvd
https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/199Issue Trackingnvd
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2014-0496US Government Resourcenvd

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