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Actively exploited · CISA KEV · NVD published 2009-12-15

CVE-2009-4324

Use-after-free vulnerability in the Doc.media.newPlayer method in Multimedia.api in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3, and 8.x before 8.2 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file using ZLib compressed streams, as exploited in the wild in December 2009.

  1. First PoC
  2. 5662 days →Metasploit
  3. 481 days →First cited attacker

Signals

Exploited in the wild
Yesadded 2022-06-08 · due 2022-06-22. An observation, not a forecast.
EPSS · 30-day forecast
82%Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile of all CVEs. A forecast; KEV outranks it.
CVSS · NVD · HIGH
7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Internet exposure
not stated by sourcesNo exposure census on this CVE's dispatches.

Exploits

5 known · links only

Metasploit2

  1. Adobe Doc.media.newPlayer Use After Free Vulnerability ↗

    This module exploits a use after free vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Professional versions up to and including 9.2.

    ruby · seen 2026-10-18

  2. Adobe Doc.media.newPlayer Use After Free Vulnerability ↗

    This module exploits a use after free vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat Professional versions up to and including 9.2.

    ruby · seen 2026-10-18

Exploit-DB3

  1. Adobe Reader / Acrobat - '.PDF' File Overflow ↗

    created 2009-12-23

  2. Adobe - 'Doc.media.newPlayer' Use-After-Free (Metasploit) (1) ↗

    created 2010-04-30

  3. Adobe - 'Doc.media.newPlayer' Use-After-Free (Metasploit) (2) ↗

    created 2010-09-25

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