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critical 9.3

CVE-2010-2738 in the critical feed json

The Uniscribe (aka new Unicode Script Processor) implementation in USP10.DLL in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista SP…

published 16y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2010-2742

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
18.5%
EPSS 18.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The Uniscribe (aka new Unicode Script Processor) implementation in USP10.DLL in Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3, Server 2003 SP2, Vista SP1 and SP2, and Server 2008 Gold and SP2, and Microsoft Office XP SP3, 2003 SP3, and 2007 SP2, does not properly validate tables associated with malformed OpenType fonts, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted (1) web site or (2) Office document, aka "Uniscribe Font Parsing Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability."

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Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-15158)

Exploit prediction

18.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-15158 Microsoft Unicode Scripts Processor - Remote Code Execution (MS10-063) dos, 2010-09-30

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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