HIGH
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
Published Oct 26, 2010
9.3
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 74.63%
Description
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.
Affected products
No data.
OR
- ≤ 11.5.8.612
- 1.0
- 2.0
- 3.0
- 4.0
- 5.0
- 6.0
- 8.0
- 8.0.196
- 8.0.196a
- 8.0.204
- 8.0.205
- 8.5.1
- 8.5.1.100
- 8.5.1.103
- 8.5.1.105
- 8.5.1.106
- 8.5.321
- 8.5.323
- 8.5.324
- 8.5.325
- 9.0.383
- 9.0.432
- 10.0.0.210
- 10.0.1.004
- 10.1.0.11
- 10.1.0.011
- 10.1.1.016
- 10.1.4.020
- 10.2.0.021
- 10.2.0.022
- 10.2.0.023
- 11.0.0.456
- 11.0.3.471
- 11.5.0.595
- 11.5.0.596
- 11.5.1.601
- 11.5.2.602
- 11.5.6.606
- 11.5.7.609
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
9.3 HIGH NVD
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
74.63% 0.74626
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.74626
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (19 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 74.63% (0.74626) | 99.49th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 74.63% (0.74626) | 99.44th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 77.78% (0.77779) | 98.94th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 80.90% (0.80897) | 98.91th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 77.78% (0.77779) | 98.95th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 92.77% (0.92774) | 99.25th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Oct 28, 2024 | 91.30% (0.91302) | 98.98th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 13, 2024 | 88.40% (0.88403) | 98.77th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 31, 2024 | 89.80% (0.89799) | 98.83th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 18, 2024 | 86.82% (0.86821) | 98.62th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 6, 2024 | 92.16% (0.92161) | 98.92th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 23, 2024 | 90.86% (0.90861) | 98.78th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 12, 2023 | 91.91% (0.91905) | 98.65th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 24, 2023 | 88.03% (0.88032) | 98.28th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Aug 5, 2023 | 84.70% (0.84698) | 98.04th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 16, 2023 | 82.77% (0.82766) | 97.92th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 82.21% (0.82214) | 97.78th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 88.87% (0.88873) | 99.81th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 88.87% (0.88873) | 99.78th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (1)
References (9)
- http://www.abysssec.com/blog/2010/10/adobe-shockwave-player-rcsl-chunk-memory-corruption-0day/ x_refsource_MISC
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-25.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15296 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/402231 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44291 vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024635 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2752 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/62688 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11285 vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
| Link | Providers | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| http://www.abysssec.com/blog/2010/10/adobe-shockwave-player-rcsl-chunk-memory-corruption-0day/ | x_refsource_MISC | |
| http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-25.html | x_refsource_CONFIRM | |
| http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15296 | exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB | |
| http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/402231 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource | |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44291 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit | |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024635 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK | |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2752 | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory | |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/62688 | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF | |
| https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11285 | vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL |
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner adobe
Published Oct 26, 2010
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Sep 28, 2010
Link CVE-2010-3653
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a