Adobe Flash Player

CVE-2010-1297: Adobe Flash Player Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Is it exploited?

Yes. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 8 Jun 2022, 4,383 days after the CVE record was published.

How likely is exploitation in the next 30 days?

82.5%

EPSS score, percentile 99.7 of all scored records

How severe?

7.8 High

CVSS v3.1 base score, from CISA's enrichment of the record

What should I do?

Required action (CISA), due 22 Jun 2022: The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

Advisories and patches (8)

Which versions are affected?

Not stated. The CVE record gives vendor and product as “n/a” and the version as “unspecified”.

Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, 2026.10.28, as of 28 Oct 2026; FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), v2026.06.15, as of 28 Oct 2026; CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of 28 Oct 2026. About the data.

What to do

Required action, set by CISA

The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

CISA due date for this action: 22 June 2022.

Advisories and patches

RHSA-2010:0464 (Vendor advisory)
GLSA-201101-09 (Vendor advisory)
APPLE-SA-2010-11-10-1 (Vendor advisory)
SUSE-SR:2010:013 (Vendor advisory)
TLSA-2010-19 (Vendor advisory)
SSRT100179 (Vendor advisory)
SUSE-SA:2010:024 (Vendor advisory)
RHSA-2010:0470 (Vendor advisory)

Linked from CISA's catalog entry

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-1297

Affected products and versions

The CVE record does not name affected products or versions: vendor and product are “n/a” and the version is “unspecified”.

Source: CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of 28 Oct 2026. About the data.

About this vulnerability

Adobe Flash Player contains a memory corruption vulnerability that allows remote attackers to execute code or cause denial-of-service (DoS).

Summary: CISA's KEV catalog, as of 28 Oct 2026.

CISA added CVE-2010-1297 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on 8 Jun 2022.
CISA's ransomware flag for this entry is "Unknown": no evidence of ransomware use in the catalog, which is not proof of none.
The due date CISA sets for the required action is 22 Jun 2022.
The CVE record was published on 8 Jun 2010, 4,383 days before it was added to KEV.
The CVE record carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 7.8 (High), taken from CISA's enrichment of the record.
FIRST's EPSS model puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 82.5% (percentile 99.7), as of 28 Oct 2026.
CISA's SSVC assessment in the CVE record: exploitation active, automatable no, technical impact total.

Source: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, 2026.10.28, as of 28 Oct 2026; CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of 28 Oct 2026; FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), v2026.06.15, as of 28 Oct 2026. About the data.

Description

Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.277.0 and 10.x before 10.1.53.64; Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.12610; and Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3.3, and 8.x before 8.2.3 on Windows and Mac OS X, allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted SWF content, related to authplay.dll and the ActionScript Virtual Machine 2 (AVM2) newfunction instruction, as exploited in the wild in June 2010.

Source: CVE List V5 (CVE Program), cve_2026-10-28_0000Z, as of 28 Oct 2026. About the data.

Weakness

CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

CWE and CAPEC are maintained by MITRE; the entries are those named in the CVE record and the KEV entry.

Timeline

Date	Event
8 Jun 2010	CVE record published
8 Jun 2022	Added to CISA KEV
22 Jun 2022	CISA due date for the required action
22 Oct 2025	CVE record last updated

References

40545 (Third-party advisory)
43026 (Third-party advisory)
TA10-162A (Third-party advisory)
VU#486225 (Third-party advisory)

31 more in the CVE record.

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