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CVE-2010-3653

84
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-3653 describes a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Shockwave Player's Director module (dirapi.dll) affecting versions prior to 11.5.9.615. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service by exploiting a crafted rcsL chunk in a Director movie. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability is highly severe, requiring no authentication and having a medium attack complexity, but leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not currently on the KEV catalog, it was exploited in the wild in October 2010 and has publicly available exploit code, including Metasploit modules and ExploitDB entries, despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 11.5.8.612CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:shockwave_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:shockwave_player:1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:shockwave_player:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:shockwave_player:3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:shockwave_player:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.3HIGH

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
74.63%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Adobe Shockwave rcsL Memory Corruption · Oct 21, 2010
ExploitDB: EDB-16594 · Oct 22, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.7463 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 8,914 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/62688
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11285
abysssec.com / blog/2010/10/adobe-shockwave-player-rcsl-chunk-memory-corruption-0day
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb10-25.html
exploit-db.com / exploits/15296
Exploit
kb.cert.org / vuls/id/402231
US Government Resource
securityfocus.com / bid/44291
Exploit
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/2752
Vendor Advisory