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CVE-2010-2883

High 7.3 Exploited in the wild (KEV)

Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog

Name
Adobe Acrobat and Reader Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Added to catalog
Remediation due date (US federal)
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1
7.3 (HIGH) Score source: NVD CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS — exploit probability
81% (percentile: 100) as of 1 November 2026
CWE
CWE-787

Affected products

adobe: acrobat; apple: macos; microsoft: windows; adobe: acrobat reader

References