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CVE-2010-2890

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2010-2890 describes a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat versions 9.x prior to 9.4 and 8.x prior to 8.2.5 on Windows and Mac OS X, which could allow for arbitrary code execution or denial of service. With a CVSS score of 9.3, it poses a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:8.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:8.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:acrobat:8.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
6.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0647 is in the 68th 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)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: acroread-0:9.4.0-1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: acroread-0:9.4.0-1.el5
View patch
adobevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2010-2890Critical

acroread: multiple code execution flaws (APSB10-21)

Oct 5, 2010

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00001.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00006.html
secunia.com / advisories/43025
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201101-08.xml
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6830
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb10-21.html
Vendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2010-0743.html
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA10-279A.html
US Government Resource
vupen.com / english/advisories/2011/0191