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critical 9.3

CVE-2010-3653 in the critical feed json

The Director module (dirapi.dll) in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.9.615 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a d…

published 2010-10-26 16 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2010-3649

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
74.6%
EPSS 74.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.5%
public exploits
3
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

The Director module (dirapi.dll) in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.9.615 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a Director movie with a crafted rcsL chunk containing a field whose value is used as a pointer offset, as exploited in the wild in October 2010. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/browser/adobe_shockwave_rcsl_corruption)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

74.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.5% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

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-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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