Netskope Threat Labs

FILE-PDF Adobe Acrobat Reader out of bounds read attempt

IPS-SWG

1 SID: 48801

First seen
November 2022
Last seen
August 2026

Detects a PDF exploiting CVE-2017-16365, CVE-2018-5068, CVE-2018-15984, and CVE-2019-7063, out-of-bounds read vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat Reader that can leak memory. The rule matches the dialog scripting and encoded streams that public exploits use to read beyond allocated buffers.