Adobe Acrobat Pro DC HTML2PDF HTML Parsing Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

December 12th, 2018
ZDI-18-1385 ZDI-CAN-6774

CVE ID

CVE-2018-16008

CVSS Score

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

Affected Vendors

Adobe

Affected Products

Acrobat Pro DC

Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file.

The specific flaw exists within the parsing of HTML files in HTML2PDF. The issue results from the lack of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations on the object. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process.

Additional Details

N/A


Disclosure Timeline

  • 2018-07-13 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
  • 2018-12-12 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

Steven Seeley (mr_me) of Source Incite

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