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CVE-2010-2179

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-06-15 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.277.0 and 10.x before 10.1.53.64, and Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.12610, when Firefox or Chrome is used, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified vectors related to URL parsing.

Affected products

• Adobe Air: before 2.0.2.12610 — fixed in 2.0.2.12610
• Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier.: before 9.0.277.0; from 10.0.0.0 before 10.1.53.64 — fixed in 10.1.53.64, 9.0.277.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Adobe Air 2.0.2.12610; Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier. 10.1.53.64, 9.0.277.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• 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

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