01 Record

CVE-2016-6949

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat before 11.0.18, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Classic before 15.006.30243, and Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Continuous before 15.020.20039 on

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: adobe

CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

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02 Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat before 11.0.18, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Classic before 15.006.30243, and Acrobat and Acrobat Reader DC Continuous before 15.020.20039 on

03 Exploitation and scoring

Exploitation: Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
SSVC decision: Not assessed by CISA
EPSS probability: 7.19% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile: Equal to or higher than the score of 94.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
NVD base score: 9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
NVD CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD analysis status: Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity: No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

04 Metadata

Published

2016-10-13 19:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-06 01:43Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-08-23

Assigning CNA

adobe

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

CWE-416Use After FreeVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

ebc77011b950b8c0034ddf2cb68fb22f3bd6e36e4edfba4d9639fcecfd6765e5

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms

adobeacrobatNot specified—

adobeacrobat_dcNot specified—

adobeacrobat_reader_dcNot specified—

adobereaderNot specified—

applemac_os_xNot specified—

microsoftwindowsNot specified—

06 References

www.verisign.com20161011 Adobe Reader FlatDecode Stream Processing UAF Vulnerabilityhttps://www.verisign.com/en_US/security-services/security-intelligence/vulnerability-reports/articles/index.xhtml?id=1230third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSE
www.securitytracker.com1036986http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036986vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
www.securityfocus.com93491http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93491vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
helpx.adobe.comhttps://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb16-33.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRM