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CVE-2010-2883 kev in the critical feed json

Stack-based buffer overflow in CoolType.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.4, and 8.x before 8.2.5 on Windows and Mac OS X, allow…

published 2010-09-09 16 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2010-2887

cvss
7.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Exploited
added 2022-06-08
epss
81.4%
EPSS 81.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.6%
public exploits
4
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in CoolType.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.4, and 8.x before 8.2.5 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a PDF document with a long field in a Smart INdependent Glyphlets (SING) table in a TTF font, as exploited in the wild in September 2010. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Patch / fix

cisa required action Apply updates per vendor instructions.

  • adobe acrobat 8.2.5, 9.4
  • adobe acrobat_reader 8.2.5, 9.4
  • acroread RHEL 4 EXTRAS 9.4.0-1.el4
  • acroread RHEL 5 EXTRAS 9.4.0-1.el5
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 4 EXTRAS 9.4.0-1.el4
  • acroread-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 9.4.0-1.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2010:0743

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-2010-2883 updated cvss 6.8

Acroread: Stack-based buffer overflow by processing certain fonts (APSA10-02)

  • Red Hat Desktop version 4 Extras acroread 9.4.0-1.el4, acroread-plugin 9.4.0-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 Extras acroread 9.4.0-1.el4, acroread-plugin 9.4.0-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) acroread 9.4.0-1.el5, acroread-plugin 9.4.0-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 Extras acroread 9.4.0-1.el4, acroread-plugin 9.4.0-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) acroread 9.4.0-1.el5, acroread-plugin 9.4.0-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 Extras acroread 9.4.0-1.el4, acroread-plugin 9.4.0-1.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2010:0743
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 acroread, acroread-plugin
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/browser/adobe_cooltype_sing)
  2. Published
  3. Added to CISA KEV
  4. CISA patch deadline
  5. CISA SSVC: exploitation active

Known exploited

Added
4 y ago
Patch by
2022-06-22 (4 y ago)
Ransomware
Not known
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vendor, product
Adobe, Acrobat and Reader
CISA name
Adobe Acrobat and Reader Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

ATT&CK techniques

How it is exploited and what it leads to, in MITRE ATT&CK terms.

  • T1204.002 Malicious File exploitation
  • T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information primary impact
  • T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter secondary impact

kev release 2025-07-28, att&ck v16.1. KEV to ATT&CK mappings by the MITRE Center for Threat-Informed Defense (Mappings Explorer, Apache-2.0). © 2026 The MITRE Corporation. This work is reproduced and distributed with the permission of The MITRE Corporation. Terms of use

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Active, exploited in the wild
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

81.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.6% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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