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CVE-2010-1297

Adobe Flash Player Memory Corruption Vulnerability

  • High 7.8
  • Exploited: added to CISA KEV 8 Jun 2022
  • A public exploit reference is listed

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.

Key facts

Published
8 Jun 2010
Last changed
22 Oct 2025
Assigned by
adobe
KEV added
8 Jun 2022
KEV fix due
22 Jun 2022
EPSS
82.531% likely to be exploited in the next 30 days, higher than 99.672% of CVEs (scores for 15 Nov 2026)
SSVC (CISA)
Exploitation: active; Automatable: no; Technical impact: total

Severity scores

Each score is shown as its source gave it. They are not averaged or merged.

  • 7.8CVSS 3.1, Highfrom CISA (ADP container)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

What to do

  • The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.CISA KEV required action

Historical context and remediation

This reference retains the original CVE publication date. A recent record update does not mean a new attack occurred.

No separately sourced impact summary is available on this page yet. Consult the description, version data and dated exploitation evidence.

Version statuses below come from the CNA. An “unaffected” version is not necessarily a currently supported release or proof of a patch date. EPSS is a dated risk estimate, not a count of historical attacks.

Read the original CVE record.

Affected products

VendorProductVersions
n/an/a
  • n/a (affected)

Timeline

  1. 8 Jun 2010 Published
  2. 8 Jun 2022 CVE-2010-1297 added to CISA KEV
  3. 8 Jun 2022 Added to the CISA KEV catalogue

Weakness

References