Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-2173

Title: Adobe Flash Player RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2010-2173.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Jun 15, 2010

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.3 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

7.44%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-2173: Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.277.0 and 10.x before 10.1.53.64, and Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.12610, might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, related to an "invalid pointer vulnerability" and the newclass (0x58) operator, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2174.

Impacted Vendors

macromedia 1

adobe 2

gnu 1

Reference Links

http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02273751 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/40144 http://secunia.com/advisories/40545 http://secunia.com/advisories/43026 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201101-09.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1024085 http://securitytracker.com/id?1024086 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435 http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-14.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0464.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0470.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511848/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40759 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40800 http://www.turbolinux.co.jp/security/2010/TLSA-2010-19j.txt http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-162A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1421 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1432 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1434 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1453 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1482 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1522 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1793 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0192 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16261 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6762 http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=emr_na-c02273751 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00000.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-06/msg00001.html http://secunia.com/advisories/40144 http://secunia.com/advisories/40545 http://secunia.com/advisories/43026 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201101-09.xml http://securitytracker.com/id?1024085 http://securitytracker.com/id?1024086 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435 http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-14.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0464.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0470.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/511848/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40759 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40800 http://www.turbolinux.co.jp/security/2010/TLSA-2010-19j.txt http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA10-162A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1421 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1432 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1434 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1453 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1482 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1522 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1793 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0192 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A16261 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A6762

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

9.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2010-2173 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

June 15, 2010 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.