Netskope Threat Labs

FILE-PDF Adobe Acrobat Reader PDF out of bounds read attempt

IPS-SWG

1 SID: 47921

First seen
May 2024
Last seen
May 2026

Detects a PDF exploiting CVE-2018-12829, an out-of-bounds read in Adobe Acrobat Reader's view handling that can leak memory. The rule matches the scripted zoom queries that public exploits use to read beyond allocated buffers.