MEDIUM
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."
Published Jan 3, 2007
5.0
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 32.61%
Description
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."
Affected products
No data.
OR
- ≤ 7.0.8
- 7.0
- 7.0
- 7.0.1
- 7.0.1
- 7.0.2
- 7.0.2
- 7.0.3
- 7.0.3
- 7.0.4
- 7.0.4
- 7.0.5
- 7.0.5
- 7.0.6
- 7.0.6
- 7.0.7
- 7.0.7
- 7.0.8
- 7.0.8
- n/a
- ≤ 7.0.8
- 6.0
- 6.0.1
- 6.0.2
- 6.0.3
- 6.0.4
- 6.0.5
- 7.0
- 7.0.1
- 7.0.2
- 7.0.3
- 7.0.4
- 7.0.5
- 7.0.6
- 7.0.7
- 7.0.8
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
5.0 MEDIUM NVD
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
32.61% 0.32609
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.32609
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (18 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 32.61% (0.32609) | 98.29th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Aug 1, 2026 | 32.61% (0.32609) | 98.17th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 31.51% (0.31512) | 98.05th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| May 22, 2026 | 48.19% (0.48190) | 97.77th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Jan 27, 2026 | 53.47% (0.53472) | 97.90th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Aug 22, 2025 | 48.68% (0.48683) | 97.67th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 20, 2025 | 51.66% (0.51663) | 97.70th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 56.32% (0.56315) | 97.88th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 36.32% (0.36321) | 97.18th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 29, 2024 | 77.73% (0.77730) | 98.14th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 15, 2023 | 75.63% (0.75634) | 97.87th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 7, 2023 | 84.82% (0.84823) | 98.15th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 30, 2023 | 87.33% (0.87326) | 98.25th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 7, 2023 | 89.97% (0.89966) | 98.27th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 91.59% (0.91586) | 98.29th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 4.36% (0.04358) | 88.02th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 4.36% (0.04358) | 86.83th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 4.36% (0.04358) | 70.59th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (0)
No CWE recorded.
References (20)
- http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Fahrplan/attachments/1158-Subverting_Ajax.pdf x_refsource_MISC
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2009/01/stable-beta-update-yahoo-mail-and.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0012.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://osvdb.org/31596 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23812 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23882 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33754 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-16.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2090 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017469 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1023007 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-01.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455801/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-286B.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTUS Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0032 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2898 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- http://www.wisec.it/vulns.php?page=9 x_refsource_MISCExploitPatchVendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31273 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6348 vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jan 3, 2007
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Jan 3, 2007
Link CVE-2007-0048
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a