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Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-704

Allowed-with-Review

Incorrect Type Conversion or Cast

Abstraction: Class · Status: Incomplete

The product does not correctly convert an object, resource, or structure from one type to a different type.

351 vulnerabilities reference this CWE, most recent first.

GHSA-XVMR-XJ68-H5HR

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2022-05-17 00:15 – Updated: 2022-05-17 00:15
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Details

An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 2017.012.20098 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30066 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30355 and earlier versions, and 11.0.22 and earlier versions. This vulnerability is an instance of a type confusion overflow vulnerability. The vulnerability leads to an out of bounds memory access. Attackers can exploit the vulnerability by using the out of bounds access for unintended reads or writes -- potentially leading to code corruption, control-flow hijack, or an information leak attack.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2017-16367"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
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      "CWE-704"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2017-12-09T06:29:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "An issue was discovered in Adobe Acrobat and Reader: 2017.012.20098 and earlier versions, 2017.011.30066 and earlier versions, 2015.006.30355 and earlier versions, and 11.0.22 and earlier versions. This vulnerability is an instance of a type confusion overflow vulnerability. The vulnerability leads to an out of bounds memory access. Attackers can exploit the vulnerability by using the out of bounds access for unintended reads or writes -- potentially leading to code corruption, control-flow hijack, or an information leak attack.",
  "id": "GHSA-xvmr-xj68-h5hr",
  "modified": "2022-05-17T00:15:12Z",
  "published": "2022-05-17T00:15:12Z",
  "references": [
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      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16367"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/acrobat/apsb17-36.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101815"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039791"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}

No mitigation information available for this CWE.

No CAPEC attack patterns related to this CWE.