How severe is CVE-2010-2883?

CVE-2010-2883 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.3 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 81.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2010-2883: Adobe Acrobat and Reader Stack-Based Buffer Overflow

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Adobe Acrobat and Reader Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-06-08

Remediation due

2022-06-22

Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-2883

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in CoolType.dll in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.4, and 8.x before 8.2.5 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a PDF document with a long field in a Smart INdependent Glyphlets (SING) table in a TTF font, as exploited in the wild in September 2010. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.3 HIGH

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Exploitation Context

as of October 15, 2026

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CISA added CVE-2010-2883 to the KEV catalog 4,290 days after its CVE record was published.
It is one of 82 Adobe entries in the CISA KEV catalog, and one of 54 added in 2022.
Its current EPSS score (81.4%) is higher than that of 65% of CISA KEV entries.

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

19 Links

Vendor advisories

Third-party advisories

Vulnerability databases

Other references

Record Details

Published

2010-09-09

Last updated

2025-10-22

Assigner (CNA)

adobe

Credited to

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