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CVE-2010-1285

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-1285 is a critical arbitrary code execution vulnerability affecting Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 9.x prior to 9.3.3 and 8.x prior to 8.2.3 on Windows and Mac OS X. This flaw stems from an "invalid pointer vulnerability" triggered by unspecified manipulations involving the newclass (0x58) operator, leading to memory corruption. With a CVSS score of 9.3, it presents a high-severity risk, allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with medium attack complexity. Despite its age and severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:9.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:9.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:9.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.17%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0417 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 8,920 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

adobepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: acroread-0:9.3.3-2.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: acroread-0:9.3.3-1.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-1285Critical

acroread: multiple code execution flaws (APSB10-15)

Jun 29, 2010

References

oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6725
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb10-15.html
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / archive/1/512099
securityfocus.com / bid/41232
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2010/1636