CVE-2010-0987

Shockwave Player vulnerability

CVSS

8.8

EPSS

11.4%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.7.609 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted embedded fonts in a Shockwave file.

Affected vendor

Adobe

Affected product

Shockwave Player

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

Published

2010-05-13

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 11.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2010-0987

Confirm whether Adobe Shockwave Player is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2010-0987.
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