CVE-2010-0188
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…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 88.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.2% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 3 Mar 2022
- 5Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Adobe Reader and Acrobat Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability.
- Added
- 3 Mar 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 24 Mar 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Known
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 3 Mar 2022.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 4 Exploit-DB entries for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits5
Metasploit modules1 module
- Adobe Acrobat Bundled LibTIFF Integer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/fileformat/adobe_libtiffRank gooddisclosed 16 Feb 2010
Exploit-DB4 entries
- Apple iOS Mobile Safari - LibTIFF Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 21868remote, iospublished 9 Oct 2012Verified
- Apple iOS Mobile Mail - LibTIFF Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 21869remote, iospublished 9 Oct 2012Verified
- Adobe Acrobat - Bundled LibTIFF Integer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16670local, windowspublished 25 Sept 2010Verified
- Adobe Reader PDF - LibTiff Integer Overflow Code Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 11787local, windowspublished 17 Mar 2010Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By adobe
- 46 days later
· 46 days later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited, also by ransomware
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 88.1% · top 0.2% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- ADV-2010-0399 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- adobe-unspec-priv-escalation(56297) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0114 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2010:006 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8697 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-07.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 38639 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 38195 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1023601 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 38915 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2010-0188 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-0219 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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