Adobe Acrobat Unsupported Version Detection (Mac OS X)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 70350

Synopsis

The remote host contains an unsupported version of Adobe Acrobat.

Description

According to its self-reported version, the installation of Adobe Acrobat on the remote Mac OS X host is no longer supported.

Lack of support implies that no new security patches for the product will be released by the vendor. As a result, it is likely to contain security vulnerabilities.

Solution

Upgrade to a version of Adobe Acrobat that is currently supported.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?d63c933d

http://www.adobe.com/support/programs/policies/supported.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 70350

File Name: macosx_adobe_acrobat_unsupported.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: macosx

Published: 10/9/2013

Updated: 9/22/2020

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:adobe:acrobat

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/MacOSX/Version, MacOSX/Adobe_Acrobat/Installed

Reference Information

IAVA: 0001-A-0505