HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2010-2866

Shockwave Player vulnerability

CVSS
9.3
EPSS
13.0%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
Integer signedness error in the DIRAPI module in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.8.612 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a count value associated with an "undocumented structure" and the tSAC chunk in a Director movie.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Shockwave Player
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2010-08-26

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 13.0% 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-2010-2866

  • Confirm whether Adobe Shockwave Player is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2010-2866.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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