CVE-2003-0142 in Acrobat Reader

Summary

Adobe Acrobat Reader (acroread) 6, under certain circumstances when running with the "Certified plug-ins only" option disabled, loads plug-ins with signatures used for older versions of Acrobat, which can allow attackers to cause Acrobat to enter Certified mode and run untrusted plugins by modifying the CTIsCertifiedMode function.

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• Reservation: 03/13/2003
• Disclosure: 08/18/2003
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-269 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 4.3
• EPSS: 0.04598
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2003-0142
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0142
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2003-0142/