Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2013-0641

Adobe Reader Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Adobe
Product Reader
Weakness CWE-120

The vulnerability

A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader which allows an attacker to perform remote code execution.

Required action

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 24 March 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 11 Nov 2026, 21:30. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

NVD record ↗ CVE.org record ↗

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