CVE-2010-2881

Shockwave Player vulnerability

CVSS

9.3

EPSS

4.3%

EPSS pct

90th

Exploited

No known

IML32.dll in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.8.612 does not properly parse .dir files, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or execute arbitrary code via a malformed file containing an invalid value, as demonstrated by a value at position 0x24C0 of a certain file.

Affected vendor

Adobe

Affected product

Shockwave Player

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

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 4.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Adobe Shockwave Player is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2010-2881.
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