CVE-2010-2178 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting Adobe Flash Player versions prior to 9.0.277.0 and 10.1.53.64, and Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.12610. This flaw allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. With a CVSS score of 9.3, it is highly severe, requiring medium attack complexity but no authentication, and impacting confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its age and high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no known public exploit code, and minimal community discussion beyond a single Reddit mention regarding a Flash update.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
9.0.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:9.0.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0.20CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:9.0.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0.20.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:9.0.20.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0.28CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:9.0.28:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
9.0.28.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:9.0.28.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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.
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.