CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2019-8237 — Adobe Acrobat Dc security vulnerability
Adobe Acrobat and Reader versions 2019.012.20035 and earlier, 2019.012.20035 and earlier, 2017.011.30142 and earlier, 2017.011.30143 and earlier, 2015.006.30497 and earlier, and 2015.006.30498 and earlier have an insufficiently robust encryption vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to security feature bypass.
- Severity
- Critical
- CVSS
- 9.8 (3.1)
- Published
- 2019-10-23
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-327
Affected products
- adobe / acrobat_dc
- adobe / acrobat_reader_dc
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Matched remediation archetype
Cryptography, certificate, signature, and channel validation
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Check exposure
- Inventory affected algorithms, key uses, trust stores, certificate validation settings, random sources, and plaintext channels across clients and services.
- Determine which secrets, identities, signatures, or data protections depend on the affected primitive or validation path.
- Check debug, compatibility, fallback, and hostname or audience override settings in build and runtime configuration.
Remediate safely
- Use a maintained platform cryptographic API with approved algorithms, modes, parameters, randomness, and full peer identity validation.
- Remove insecure fallback and validation bypasses; separate keys by purpose and load them from managed secret storage.
- Plan rotation or reissuance for affected keys, certificates, tokens, hashes, or ciphertext and document compatibility sequencing.
Authoritative sources
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