CVE-2010-1280

high

Published 2010-05-13 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

8.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

Description

Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.7.609 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted .dir (aka Director) file, related to (1) an erroneous dereference and (2) a certain Shock.dir file.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-12578 dos windows verified

LiquidWorm · 2010-05-12

Adobe Shockwave Player 11.5.6.606 - 'DIR' Multiple Memory Vulnerabilities

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

macOS Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
adobe	shockwave_player	`{"endExcluding":"11.5.7.609"}`	`11.5.7.609`

References

CWEs

CWE-787

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.