CVE-2013-2729

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-03-28), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: cisa_kev, epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 67%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: cisa kev · ssvc active · epss top5pct · epss high · public exploitExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Integer overflow in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.5.5, 10.x before 10.1.7, and 11.x before 11.0.03 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-2727.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
84
EG Risk 84/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity98% × 45%
Exploitation100% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
EPSS PROB
67%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

CISA SSVCTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

May 16, 2013

Last Modified

April 22, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Oct 1, 2026
Patch available.
generic

Adobe Reader: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201308-03) — Gentoo security

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201308-03.xml
generic
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0826.html

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatacroread-0:9.5.5-1.el6_42013-05-15redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(1)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 85× in last 7d / 392× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,687 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-10-06 08:16 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-06 08:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-06 04:09 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-06 04:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-10-06 00:01 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-06 00:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-10-05 19:54 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-05 19:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-10-05 15:47 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-05 15:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-10-05 11:36 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-05 11:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-10-05 07:28 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-05 07:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-10-05 03:20 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-05 03:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-10-04 23:13 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-04 23:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-10-04 19:05 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-04 19:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-10-04 14:58 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-04 14:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-10-04 10:50 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-04 10:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-10-04 06:40 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-10-04 06:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-10-04 02:33 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-04 02:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-03 22:25 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-03 22:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-10-03 18:15 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-03 18:15 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-03 18:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-10-03 14:05 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-03 14:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-10-03 09:58 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-03 09:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-10-03 05:48 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-03 05:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-10-03 01:39 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-03 01:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-10-02 21:32 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-02 21:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-10-02 17:25 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-02 17:25 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-02 17:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-10-02 13:15 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-02 13:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-10-02 09:08 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-02 09:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-10-02 05:00 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-10-02 05:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-10-02 00:53 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-10-02 00:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  30. 2026-10-01 20:44 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-10-01 20:44 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-10-01 20:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  33. 2026-10-01 16:36 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-10-01 16:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  35. 2026-10-01 12:25 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-10-01 12:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  37. 2026-10-01 08:15 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-10-01 08:15 UTCGHSA enrichment
  39. 2026-10-01 04:08 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-10-01 04:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  41. 2026-10-01 00:00 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-09-30 23:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  43. 2026-09-30 19:48 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-09-30 19:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  45. 2026-09-30 15:41 UTCEG score recompute
  46. 2026-09-30 15:41 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-09-30 15:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  48. 2026-09-30 14:58 UTCEPSS rescore
  49. 2026-09-30 11:33 UTCVendor advisory
  50. 2026-09-30 11:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  51. 2026-09-30 07:26 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-09-30 07:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  53. 2026-09-30 03:18 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-09-30 03:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  55. 2026-09-29 23:11 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-09-29 23:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  57. 2026-09-29 19:01 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-09-29 19:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  59. 2026-09-29 14:50 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-09-29 14:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  61. 2026-09-29 10:43 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-09-29 10:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  63. 2026-09-29 06:35 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-09-29 06:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  65. 2026-09-29 02:28 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-09-29 02:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  67. 2026-09-28 22:20 UTCEG score recompute
  68. 2026-09-28 22:20 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-09-28 22:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  70. 2026-09-28 18:13 UTCVendor advisory
  71. 2026-09-28 18:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  72. 2026-09-28 14:05 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-09-28 14:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  74. 2026-09-28 09:57 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-09-28 09:57 UTCGHSA enrichment

Publicly available exploits

(2 references)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 GitHub PoC) (1 Exploit-DB entry). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-26703
    First seen Jul 8, 2013

    Adobe Reader X 10.1.4.38 - '.BMP'/'.RLE' Heap Corruption

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCfeliam/CVE-2013-2729
    First seen May 15, 2013
    Open source ↗

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Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2013-2729?
CVE-2013-2729 is a critical vulnerability published on May 16, 2013. Integer overflow in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.5.5, 10.x before 10.1.7, and 11.x before 11.0.03 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-2727.
When was CVE-2013-2729 disclosed?
CVE-2013-2729 was first published on May 16, 2013, with the most recent update on April 22, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2013-2729 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2013-2729 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 28, 2022, affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2013-2729?
CVE-2013-2729 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2013-2729?
CVE-2013-2729 affects Adobe Reader and Acrobat.
How do I remediate CVE-2013-2729?
A fix for CVE-2013-2729 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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