CVE-2010-3653
The Director module (dirapi.dll) in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.9.615 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 74.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.5% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The Director module (dirapi.dll) in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.9.615 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a Director movie with a crafted rcsL chunk containing a field whose value is used as a pointer offset, as exploited in the wild in October 2010. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
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 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- Adobe Shockwave rcsL Memory Corruption (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/adobe_shockwave_rcsl_corruptionRank normaldisclosed 21 Oct 2010
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Adobe Shockwave Player - rcsL Memory Corruption (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16594remote, windowspublished 22 Oct 2010Verified
- Adobe Shockwave Player - 'rcsL chunk' Memory Corruption (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 15296remote, windowspublished 21 Oct 2010Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 15296 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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
- 28 days later
· 28 days 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)
- 74.6% · top 0.5% 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
9
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-25.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- adobe-shockwave-rcsl-code-exec(62688) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.abysssec.com/blog/2010/10/adobe-shockwave-player-rcsl-chunk-memory-corruption-0day/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 15296 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- VU#402231 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11285 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 44291 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1024635 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2010-2752 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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-2010-3649 (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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