VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-4091

critical
Published 2010-11-07 · 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
10.0

Description

The EScript.api plugin in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 10.x before 10.0.1, 9.x before 9.4.1, and 8.x before 8.2.6 on Windows and Mac OS X allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via a crafted PDF document that triggers memory corruption, involving the printSeps function. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

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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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-15419 dos windows verified text · 1 KB
scup · 2010-11-04

Acrobat Reader 9.4 - Memory Corruption

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB 
https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/15419.bin (xpl_pdf.bin)

http://extraexploit.blogspot.com/2010/11/full-disclosure-xplpdf-adober-reader-94.html

OS impact
macos macOS Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.0
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.1
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.1.1
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.1.2
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.1.4
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.1.5
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.1.6
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.1.7
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.2
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.2.1
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.2.2
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.2.3
adobe adobeacrobat_reader8.2.4
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.0
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.1
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.1.1
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.1.2
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.1.3
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.2
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.3
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.3.1
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.3.2
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.3.3
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.3.4
adobe adobeacrobat_reader9.4
adobe adobeacrobat_reader10.0
adobe adobeacrobat8.0
adobe adobeacrobat8.1
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.1
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.2
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.3
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.4
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.5
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.6
adobe adobeacrobat8.1.7
adobe adobeacrobat8.2
adobe adobeacrobat8.2.1
adobe adobeacrobat8.2.2
adobe adobeacrobat8.2.3
adobe adobeacrobat8.2.4
adobe adobeacrobat9.0
adobe adobeacrobat9.1
adobe adobeacrobat9.1.1
adobe adobeacrobat9.1.2
adobe adobeacrobat9.1.3
adobe adobeacrobat9.2
adobe adobeacrobat9.3
adobe adobeacrobat9.3.1
adobe adobeacrobat9.3.2
adobe adobeacrobat9.3.3
adobe adobeacrobat9.3.4
adobe adobeacrobat9.4
adobe adobeacrobat10.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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