The version of Adobe Reader installed on the remote macOS host is a version prior to 2015.006.30306 or 2017.009.20044.
It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities.

  - Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 11.0.19 and earlier, 15.006.30280 and earlier, 15.023.20070 and earlier have     an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the JavaScript engine. Successful exploitation could     lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-3037)

  - Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 11.0.19 and earlier, 15.006.30280 and earlier, 15.023.20070 and earlier have     an exploitable use after free vulnerability when manipulating an internal data structure. Successful     exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-3026)

  - Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 11.0.19 and earlier, 15.006.30280 and earlier, 15.023.20070 and earlier have     an exploitable use after free vulnerability in the XFA module, related to the choiceList element.
    Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-3027)

  - Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 11.0.19 and earlier, 15.006.30280 and earlier, 15.023.20070 and earlier have     an exploitable use after free vulnerability in the XML Forms Architecture (XFA) engine. Successful     exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-3035)

  - Adobe Acrobat Reader versions 11.0.19 and earlier, 15.006.30280 and earlier, 15.023.20070 and earlier have     an exploitable use after free vulnerability in the JavaScript engine's annotation-related API. Successful     exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution. (CVE-2017-3047)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Detections

Analytics

Adobe Reader < 2015.006.30306 / 2017.009.20044 Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB17-11) (macOS)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 209425

Version 1.3

Version 1.2

Version 1.1

Version 1.3 Nov 21, 2024, 2:36 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411211436
Version 1.2 Oct 22, 2024, 8:01 AM Exploit attributes ("Exploited by malware" set to "True") Plugin Feed: 202410220801
Version 1.1 Oct 21, 2024, 7:12 PM New Plugin Feed: 202410211912