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Actively exploited · Published Feb 21, 2010 · Assigned by adobe

CVE-2010-0188

High 7.8 Exploited Ransomware

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in Reader and Acrobat from Adobe. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on March 3, 2022). It has been used in ransomware campaigns. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 88.2% (higher than 99.8% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)88.2%top 0.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildYesCISA KEV since Mar 3, 2022
Attack tooling1Metasploit

CISA guidance

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Federal agencies must remediate by Mar 24, 2022.

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

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