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CVE-2010-2179 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.277.0 and 10.x before 10.1.53.64, and Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.1261…

published 2010-06-15 16 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2010-2195

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
5.9%
EPSS 5.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.277.0 and 10.x before 10.1.53.64, and Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.12610, when Firefox or Chrome is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors related to URL parsing.

Patch / fix

  • adobe flash_player 9.0.277.0, 10.1.53.64
  • adobe air 2.0.2.12610
  • flash-plugin RHEL 3 EXTRAS 9.0.277.0-1.el3.with.oss
  • flash-plugin RHEL 4 EXTRAS 9.0.277.0-1.el4
  • flash-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 10.1-2.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2010:0470RHSA-2010:0464

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2010-2179 updated cvss 6.8

flash-plugin: multiple security flaws (APSB10-14)

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 Extras flash-plugin 9.0.277.0-1.el3.with.oss Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras flash-plugin 9.0.277.0-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 Extras flash-plugin 9.0.277.0-1.el3.with.oss Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras flash-plugin 9.0.277.0-1.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2010:0470
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 10.1-2.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2010:0464
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 Extras flash-plugin 9.0.277.0-1.el3.with.oss Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras flash-plugin 9.0.277.0-1.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2010:0470
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 10.1-2.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2010:0464
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 Extras flash-plugin 9.0.277.0-1.el3.with.oss Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras flash-plugin 9.0.277.0-1.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2010:0470

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Exploit prediction

5.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

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