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CVE-2010-3636

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2010-11-07 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.289.0 and 10.x before 10.1.102.64 on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris, and 10.1.95.1 on Android, does not properly handle unspecified encodings during the parsing of a cross-domain policy file, which allows remote web servers to bypass intended access restrictions via unknown vectors.

Affected products

• Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier.: from 9.0 before 9.0.289.0; from 10.0 before 10.1.102.64; through 10.1.95.1 — fixed in 10.1.102.64, 9.0.289.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier. 10.1.102.64, 9.0.289.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://blogs.sun.com/security/entry/multiple_vulnerabilities_in_adobe_flash1
• http://jvn.jp/en/jp/JVN48425028/index.html
• http://jvndb.jvn.jp/ja/contents/2010/JVNDB-2010-000054.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Nov/msg00000.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-11/msg00002.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130331642631603&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42183
• http://secunia.com/advisories/42926
• http://secunia.com/advisories/43026
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201101-09.xml
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
• http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-26.html

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