CVE-2010-2168: adobe acrobat Resource Management Errors
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2010-2168 is a high (CVSS 9.3) Resource Management Errors vulnerability in adobe acrobat. EPSS estimates a 14.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96.5% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1Timeline
- 30-06-2010PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3.3, and 8.x before 8.2.3 on Windows and Mac OS X, allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a PDF file with crafted Flash content, involving the newfunction (0x44) operator and an "invalid pointer vulnerability" that triggers memory corruption, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-1285 and CVE-2010-2201.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
14.27%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
97%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 14.27% on 20-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
1 foundAdobe Acrobat Reader and Flash - 'newfunction' Remote Code Execution
Maturity: poc
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Adobe2 products
- acrobat9.0 | 9.1 | 9.1.1 | 9.1.2 | 9.1.3 | 9.2 | 9.3 | 9.3.1 | 9.3.2 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.1.1 | 8.1.2 | 8.1.3 | 8.1.4 | 8.1.5 | 8.1.6 | 8.1.7 | 8.2 | 8.2.1 | 8.2.2
- acrobat_reader9.0 | 9.1 | 9.1.1 | 9.1.2 | 9.1.3 | 9.2 | 9.3 | 9.3.1 | 9.3.2 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.1.1 | 8.1.2 | 8.1.4 | 8.1.5 | 8.1.6 | 8.1.7 | 8.2.1 | 8.2.2
1 vendor · 2 products
References
6 links- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A7167VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL