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CVE-2009-3461 (GCVE-0-2009-3461)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-10-19 22:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 06:31
VLAI
Summary
Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat 9.x before 9.2 allows attackers to bypass intended file-extension restrictions via unknown vectors.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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Date Public
2009-10-13 00:00
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  • Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

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Related by attack behaviour

Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.


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