Netskope Threat Labs

FILE-PDF Adobe Acrobat Reader Uninitialzed pointer attempt detected

IPS-SWG

1 SID: 160181

Detects a PDF exploiting CVE-2025-27158, an uninitialized pointer condition in Adobe Acrobat Reader's content parsing that can allow code execution. The rule matches a second variant of the crafted structures that public exploits use to reach the uninitialized object state.