CVE-2010-2888 Code injection in n/a

What is CVE-2010-2888?

CVE-2010-2888 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat, published on 6 Oct 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in an ActiveX control in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 8.x before 8.2.5 and 9.x before 9.4 on Windows allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-2888?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Acrobat Reader.

How do I fix CVE-2010-2888?

No fix has been published for CVE-2010-2888 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2010-2888 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-2888 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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-hxm7-hg74-hf87.