Re: Vulnerability (critical): Digital signature for Adobe Acrobat/Reader plug-in can be forged

From: Dan Harkless (bugtraqat_private)
Date: Wed Mar 26 2003 - 10:35:13 PST

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    Vladimir Katalov <infoat_private> writes:
>   We were able to write a 'fake' plug-in "fakecert.api" which does
>   nothing, but being loaded by Adobe Acrobat (and Reader) 4 and 5
>   as the certified one even in 'trusted' mode, though we don't have
>   a 'Reader Integration Key' (this plug-in has been provided only to
>   Adobe and CERT). When installed into 'plug_ins' subfolder, plug-in
>   is being loaded every time when Adobe Acrobat (or Reader) starts, and
>   shows a simple message box.

For those of us not familiar with Acrobat plugins, is there some facility
for the program retrieving/installing plugins automatically, or, to exploit
this would you need to entice a user to manually place your .api file in
their "plug_ins" directory (or run an installer program that would do so, in
which case you could run arbitrary code anyway in the installer)?

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Dan Harkless
bugtraqat_private
http://harkless.org/dan/

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