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CVE-2010-1297

Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.277.0 and 10.x before 10.1.53.64; Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.12610; and Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before…

Description

Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.277.0 and 10.x before 10.1.53.64; Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.12610; and Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3.3, and 8.x before 8.2.3 on Windows and Mac OS X, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted SWF content, related to authplay.dll and the ActionScript Virtual Machine 2 (AVM2) newfunction instruction, as exploited in the wild in June 2010.

Exploited in the wild

CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Adobe Flash Player Memory Corruption Vulnerability.

Added
8 Jun 2022
Fix due (US federal)
22 Jun 2022
Used by ransomware
Not known

The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 8 Jun 2022.

Public exploit

An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Metasploit modules and 4 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.

Show the exploits7

Metasploit modules2 modules

Exploit-DB4 entries

References tagged exploit1 reference

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

  1. ID reserved

    By adobe

  2. · 2 months later

    Published

  3. · 12 years later

    Added to CISA KEV

    Known exploited in the wild

  4. · 3 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

CVSS scores of CVE-2010-1297, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
CISA-ADPADP (enrichment)3.1High7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVDNVD · Analyzed3.1High7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
82.5% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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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

44

Sources

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