Netskope Threat Labs

FILE-OTHER Adobe Professional EMF embedded image heap overflow attempt

IPS-SWG

1 SID: 47628

First seen
January 2024
Last seen
March 2025

Detects a document exploiting CVE-2018-12851 and CVE-2018-4982, heap overflows in Adobe Acrobat's metafile image handling that can allow code execution. The rule matches the crafted image records that public exploits use to overflow parser buffers.