Netskope Threat Labs

FILE-MULTIMEDIA Adobe Acrobat Professional EMF malformed EMR_COMMENT record out of bounds access attempt

IPS-SWG

1 SID: 43940

First seen
October 2022
Last seen
August 2026

Detects a document exploiting CVE-2017-11227, CVE-2017-11245, and CVE-2018-15946, memory access flaws in Adobe Acrobat's metafile comment handling that can leak memory or allow code execution. The rule matches the malformed comment records that public exploits use to reach vulnerable parser paths.