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Actively exploited · Published Sep 9, 2010 · Assigned by adobe

CVE-2010-2883

High 7.3 Exploited

In plain English

A high-severity out-of-bounds write in Acrobat and Reader from Adobe. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on June 8, 2022). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 81.4% (higher than 99.6% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, public proof-of-concept code. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.3High
Exploit odds (30 days)81.4%top 0.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildYesCISA KEV since Jun 8, 2022
Attack tooling2Metasploit, Public PoC

CISA guidance

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Federal agencies must remediate by Jun 22, 2022.

Official description

Stack-based buffer overflow in CoolType.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.4, and 8.x before 8.2.5 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a PDF document with a long field in a Smart INdependent Glyphlets (SING) table in a TTF font, as exploited in the wild in September 2010. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products (as reported)

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Weakness: CWE-787 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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