CVE-2007-0045
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in 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, for Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1, Google Chrome, Opera 8.5.4 build 770, and Opera 9.10.8679 on Windows allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript and conduct other attacks via a .pdf URL with a javascript: or res: URI with (1) FDF, (2) XML, and (3) XFDF AJAX parameters, or (4) an arbitrarily named name=URI anchor identifier, aka "Universal XSS (UXSS)."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 47.3% (99th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-0049)
- Published
- January 3, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-0049 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat
- adobe / acrobat 3d
- adobe / acrobat reader
- adobe / acrobat reader
- adobe / acrobat reader
- adobe / acrobat reader
- adobe / acrobat reader
- adobe / acrobat reader
- adobe / acrobat reader
- adobe / acrobat reader
- adobe / acrobat reader
- adobe / acrobat reader
- adobe / acrobat reader
- adobe / acrobat reader
- adobe / acrobat reader
- adobe / acrobat reader
- adobe / acrobat reader
- adobe / acrobat reader
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://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742
- http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-security-announce/2007-Jan/0012.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23483(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23691(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23812(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23877(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23882(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24457(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24533(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33754(Vendor Advisory)
- 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://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.338131
- http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102847-1
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa07-01.html(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa07-02.html
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-01.html
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html
- http://www.disenchant.ch/blog/hacking-with-browser-plugins/34(Exploit)
- http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/danger-danger-danger/(Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.gnucitizen.org/blog/universal-pdf-xss-after-party
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/815960(Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource)
- http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-02.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0021.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455790/100/0/threaded(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455800/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455801/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455831/100/0/threaded(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455836/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/455906/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21858
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-286B.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0032(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0957(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2898(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.wisec.it/vulns.php?page=9(Exploit, Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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