CVE-2011-2462
Unspecified vulnerability in the U3D component in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.1.1 and earlier on Windows and Mac OS X, and Adobe Reader…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 88.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.2% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 8 Jun 2022
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the U3D component in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.1.1 and earlier on Windows and Mac OS X, and Adobe Reader 9.x through 9.4.6 on UNIX, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in December 2011.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Adobe Reader and Acrobat Universal 3D Memory Corruption 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 a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- Adobe Reader U3D Memory Corruption Vulnerability (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/fileformat/adobe_reader_u3dRank averagedisclosed 6 Dec 2011
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Adobe Reader - U3D Memory Corruption (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 18366local, windowspublished 14 Jan 2012Verified
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
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 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 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 88.6% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (9 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 8.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- openSUSE-SU-2012:0087 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-01.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa11-04.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2012:0011 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2012:0086 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-30.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:14562 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- TA11-350A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2011-2462 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
- https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/199 (opens in a new tab)issue-tracking
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-2011-2451 (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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