Coverage › CVE-2009-3459
CVE-2009-3459 Unmapped
Adobe Acrobat and Reader Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
- Vendor / product
- Adobe — Acrobat and Reader
- Description (CISA)
- Adobe Acrobat and Reader contain a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted PDF file that triggers memory corruption.
- Added to KEV
- 2026-05-20 — after the latest CTID mapping snapshot (2025-07-28)
- Due date
- 2026-06-03
- Required action
- Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
- Known ransomware use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-119
- CISA notes
- https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2009/10/13/adobe-reader-and-acrobat-vulnerabilities
https://web.archive.org/web/20120324170253/http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html#:~:text=CVE%2D2009%2D3459).-,NOTE%3A,-There%20are%20reports
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3459 - Elsewhere
- cve.org · NVD · CISA KEV · JSON
ATT&CK techniques
No public source states how this vulnerability is exploited in ATT&CK terms.
The only authoritative CVE → ATT&CK mapping in the open — CTID's Mappings Explorer, pinned to a KEV snapshot of 2025-07-28 and ATT&CK 16.1 — does not include CVE-2009-3459. This entry was added to KEV on 2026-05-20, after that snapshot; of the 283 entries added since, 0 have a mapping. CISA's catalogue carries no technique field. kevmap does not infer techniques from the CWE (CWE-119) — here is why — and does not guess.
This page will change state automatically if a mapping is published. What is shown above is everything CISA publishes about the entry.