CVE-2010-2883
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,…
- 7.3HighCVSS base score
- 81.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.4% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 8 Jun 2022
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Adobe Acrobat and Reader Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability.
- Added
- 8 Jun 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 22 Jun 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
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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 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules2 modules
- Adobe CoolType SING Table "uniqueName" Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/adobe_cooltype_singRank greatdisclosed 7 Sept 2010
- Adobe CoolType SING Table "uniqueName" Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/fileformat/adobe_cooltype_singRank greatdisclosed 7 Sept 2010
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Adobe CoolType - SING Table 'uniqueName' Local Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (2) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16619local, windowspublished 25 Sept 2010Verified
- Adobe CoolType - SING Table 'uniqueName' Remote Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (1) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16494remote, windowspublished 20 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 adobe
- 44 days later
· 44 days later
Published
- 12 years later
· 12 years later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 3 years later
· 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
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 81.4% · top 0.4% of all CVEs (9 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 7.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
20
- SUSE-SA:2010:048 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0191 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11586 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa10-02.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 43025 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0344 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- GLSA-201101-08 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- ADV-2010-2331 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- VU#491991 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- RHSA-2010:0743 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-21.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- TA10-279A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- 41340 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://community.websense.com/blogs/securitylabs/archive/2010/09/10/brief-analysis-on-adobe-reader-sing-table-parsing-vulnerability-cve-2010-2883.aspx (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- adobe-reader-cooltype-code-execution(61635) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://blog.metasploit.com/2010/09/return-of-unpublished-adobe.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 43057 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- TLSA-2011-2 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TURBOx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2010:019 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2010-2883 (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-2010-2887 (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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