CVE-2007-0048
MEDIUMEPSS 98th pctlDescription
Adobe Acrobat Reader Plugin before 8.0.0, and possibly the plugin distributed with Adobe Reader 7.x before 7.1.4, 8.x before 8.1.7, and 9.x before 9.2, when used with Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, or Opera, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a long sequence of # (hash) characters appended to a PDF URL, related to a "cross-site scripting issue."
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 98% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Fahrplan/attachments/1158-Subverting_Ajax.pdf
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/01/stable-beta-update-yahoo-mail-and.html
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0012.html
- http://osvdb.org/31596
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23812
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23882
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33754
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-16.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2090
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017469
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023007
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-01.html
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455801/100/0/threaded
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-286B.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0032
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2898
- http://www.wisec.it/vulns.php?page=9
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31273
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6348
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