CVE-2010-0188 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Arbitrary Code Execution

What is CVE-2010-0188?

CVE-2010-0188 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 21 Feb 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.x before 8.2.1 and 9.x before 9.3.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-0188?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader.

How do I fix CVE-2010-0188?

Upgrade to a fixed version. US federal agencies must fix it by 24 Mar 2022.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2010-0188 being exploited?

Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2010-0188 in the wild since at least 3 Mar 2022, including in ransomware campaigns.

Public exploit code: 1 Metasploit module and 4 Exploit-DB entries.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat

• CVE-2021-28550 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Use-After-Free Exploited Critical 9.6
• CVE-2021-21017 Adobe Acrobat and Reader Heap-based Buffer Overflow Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0546 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Sandbox Bypass Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0496 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-3346 Adobe Reader and Acrobat Memory Corruption Exploited High 8.8

All Adobe Acrobat vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-g5pc-j3x2-5p8p.