How severe is CVE-2010-0188?

CVE-2010-0188 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 88.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

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

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Adobe Reader and Acrobat Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-03-03

Remediation due

2022-03-24

Ransomware

Known use

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-0188

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

10 Links

Vendor advisories

Third-party advisories

Vulnerability databases

Other references

http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-07.html

Record Details

Published

2010-02-21

Last updated

2026-08-14

Assigner (CNA)

adobe

Credited to

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