CVE-2010-0480
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the MPEG Layer-3 audio codecs in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2,…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 67.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.7% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the MPEG Layer-3 audio codecs in Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted AVI file, aka "MPEG Layer-3 Audio Decoder Stack Overflow Vulnerability."
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 3 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- MS10-026 Microsoft MPEG Layer-3 Audio Stack Based Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/ms10_026_avi_nsamplespersecRank normaldisclosed 13 Apr 2010
Exploit-DB3 entries
- Microsoft MPEG Layer-3 Audio - Stack Overflow (MS10-026) (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 17659remote, windowspublished 13 Aug 2011Verified
- Microsoft MPEG Layer-3 Audio Decoder - Division By Zero (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 15096dos, windowspublished 24 Sept 2010Verified
- Microsoft MPEG Layer-3 - Remote Command Execution (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 14895remote, windowspublished 5 Sept 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 microsoft
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 67.9% · top 0.7% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
4
- 8336 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:7441 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- MS10-026 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MSx_transferred
- TA10-103A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
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)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-0511 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2010-0480)Record last updated .