National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2003-0142
Original release date:08/18/2003
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#689835
Name: VU#689835
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20030708 Adobe Acrobat and PDF security: no improvements for 2 years
Type: Advisory
