VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-3976

critical
Published 2010-10-19 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.3

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.289.0 and 10.x before 10.1.102.64 on Windows allows local users, and possibly remote attackers, to execute arbitrary code and conduct DLL hijacking attacks via a Trojan horse dwmapi.dll that is located in the same folder as a file that is processed by Flash Player.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobeflash_player{"endIncluding":"9.0.277.0"}
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.16
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.18d60
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.20
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.20.0
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.28
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.28.0
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.31
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.31.0
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.45.0
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.47.0
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.48.0
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.112.0
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.114.0
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.115.0
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.124.0
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.125.0
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.151.0
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.152.0
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.155.0
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.159.0
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.246.0
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.260.0
adobe adobeflash_player9.0.262.0
adobe adobeflash_player10.0.0.584
adobe adobeflash_player10.0.12.10
adobe adobeflash_player10.0.12.36
adobe adobeflash_player10.0.15.3
adobe adobeflash_player10.0.22.87
adobe adobeflash_player10.0.32.18
adobe adobeflash_player10.0.42.34
adobe adobeflash_player10.0.45.2
adobe adobeflash_player10.1.52.14.1
adobe adobeflash_player10.1.52.15
adobe adobeflash_player10.1.53.64
adobe adobeflash_player10.1.82.76
adobe adobeflash_player10.1.85.3
adobe adobeflash_player10.1.92.8
adobe adobeflash_player10.1.95.1
adobe adobeflash_player10.1.95.2

References

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

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