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FKIE_CVE-2014-0546

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2014-08-12 21:55 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:03

Severity

9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.1.11 and 11.x before 11.0.08 on Windows allow attackers to bypass a sandbox protection mechanism, and consequently execute native code in a privileged context, via unspecified vectors.

References

URL	Tags
psirt@adobe.com	http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/reader/apsb14-19.html	Patch, Vendor Advisory
psirt@adobe.com	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030711	Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/reader/apsb14-19.html	Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030711	Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0	https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/199	Issue Tracking
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0	https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2014-0546	US Government Resource

Impacted products

Vendor	Product	Version
adobe	acrobat	*
adobe	acrobat	*
adobe	acrobat_reader	*
adobe	acrobat_reader	*
microsoft	windows	*

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CVE-2014-0546 (GCVE-0-2014-0546)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-08-12 21:00 – Updated: 2025-11-21 15:46

Summary

Severity

8.8 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: active Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-11-21 15:45 UTC

CWE

Assigner

adobe CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 75/100 over 803 records in the last 180 days details

References

4 references

URL	Tags
http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/reader/a…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1030711	vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilit…	government-resource
https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/199	issue-tracking

Date Public

2014-08-12 00:00

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