CVE-2010-0188
Adobe Reader and Acrobat: Arbitrary Code Execution
As of , CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader and Acrobat is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch this week.
- Exploited
- Yes: CISA listed it on 3 March 2022
- US federal deadline
- 24 March 202221 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
- Used in ransomware campaigns
- Known
- EPSS score
- 0.88Higher than 99% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS when listed
- 0.91 on 3 March 2022EPSS on the day CISA listed it.
- Public exploit
- 1 Metasploit module and 4 Exploit-DB entries (4 verified)
- Fix
- No vendor link in CISA's entry
What CISA says to do
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
CISA's required action
What the flaw is
Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat allows attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.
CISA's description
Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.x before 8.2.1 and 9.x before 9.3.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.
The CVE record's description, from adobe
- CVE published
- 21 February 2010
- Assigned by
- adobe
- CVSS
- 7.8 High (CVSS 3.1, from CISA-ADP)
- CWE-94
- Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
- CISA SSVC, exploitation
- active
- CISA SSVC, automatable
- no
- CISA SSVC, technical impact
- total
Timeline
- The CVE record was published.
- Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 11787).
- Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 16670).
- Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 21868).
- Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 21869).
- CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- The US federal deadline to fix it.
Public exploits
Facts from Metasploit's module list and Exploit-DB's index; we never copy exploit code.
- Metasploit: Adobe Acrobat Bundled LibTIFF Integer Overflowexploit module, rank good
- Exploit-DB: Apple iOS Mobile Safari - LibTIFF Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)EDB-ID 21868, verified by Exploit-DB, 9 October 2012
- Exploit-DB: Apple iOS Mobile Mail - LibTIFF Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)EDB-ID 21869, verified by Exploit-DB, 9 October 2012
- Exploit-DB: Adobe Acrobat - Bundled LibTIFF Integer Overflow (Metasploit)EDB-ID 16670, verified by Exploit-DB, 25 September 2010
- Exploit-DB: Adobe Reader PDF - LibTiff Integer Overflow Code ExecutionEDB-ID 11787, verified by Exploit-DB, 17 March 2010
Reader and Acrobat: other exploited entries
| Vulnerability | Product | Our group | Listed | Deadline | EPSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2011-2462Universal 3D Memory Corruption | Adobe Reader and Acrobat | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.89; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.89 | ||
| CVE-2009-0927Reader and Adobe Acrobat Stack-Based Buffer Overflow | Adobe Reader and Acrobat | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.97; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.97 | ||
| CVE-2013-3346Memory Corruption | Adobe Reader and Acrobat | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.79; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.79 | ||
| CVE-2013-0640Memory Corruption | Adobe Reader and Acrobat | Patch this weekEPSS 0.87; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.87 | ||
| CVE-2013-2729Arbitrary Integer Overflow | Adobe Reader and Acrobat | Patch this weekEPSS 0.67 | 0.67 | ||
| CVE-2014-0496Use-After-Free | Adobe Reader and Acrobat | Patch soon | 0.40 | ||
| CVE-2014-0546Sandbox Bypass | Adobe Reader and Acrobat | Patch soon | 0.22 |
Read further
- CVE recordcve.org
- NVD entrynvd.nist.gov
- CISA's catalogcisa.gov
- EPSS for this CVEapi.first.org