CVE-2009-4324
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Doc.media.newPlayer method in Multimedia.api in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3, and 8.x…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 81.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.3% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 8 Jun 2022
- 5Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the Doc.media.newPlayer method in Multimedia.api in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3, and 8.x before 8.2 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file using ZLib compressed streams, as exploited in the wild in December 2009.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free Vulnerability.
- Added
- 8 Jun 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 22 Jun 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 8 Jun 2022.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Metasploit modules and 3 Exploit-DB entries for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits5
Metasploit modules2 modules
- Adobe Doc.media.newPlayer Use After Free Vulnerability (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/adobe_media_newplayerRank gooddisclosed 14 Dec 2009
- Adobe Doc.media.newPlayer Use After Free Vulnerability (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/fileformat/adobe_media_newplayerRank gooddisclosed 14 Dec 2009
Exploit-DB3 entries
- Adobe - 'Doc.media.newPlayer' Use-After-Free (Metasploit) (2) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16623local, windowspublished 25 Sept 2010Verified
- Adobe - 'Doc.media.newPlayer' Use-After-Free (Metasploit) (1) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16503local, windowspublished 30 Apr 2010Verified
- Adobe Reader / Acrobat - '.PDF' File Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 10618local, windowspublished 23 Dec 2009Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By adobe
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 81.9% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References22
- 37331 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://blogs.adobe.com/psirt/2009/12/new_adobe_reader_and_acrobat_v.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 37690 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 38138 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=547799 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 60980 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- VU#508357 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- acro-reader-unspecifed-code-execution(54747) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2009-3518 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.metasploit.com/redmine/projects/framework/repository/revisions/7881/entry/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/adobe_media_newplayer.rb (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-02.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:6795 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0060 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://contagiodump.blogspot.com/2009/12/virustotal-httpwww.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2010-0103 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa09-07.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/zero-day-xmas-present (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.shadowserver.org/wiki/pmwiki.php/Calendar/20091214 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 38215 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SA:2010:008 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- TA10-013A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2009-4324 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2009-4292 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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