CVE-2010-3976

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-10-19 · updated 2026-06-16

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.

Affected products

Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier.: through 9.0.277.0; through 10.1.92.10; 9.0.16, 9.0.18d60, 9.0.20, 9.0.20.0, 9.0.28, 9.0.28.0 (+33)

References

http://core.yehg.net/lab/pr0js/advisories/dll_hijacking/%5Bflash_player%5D_10.1.x_insecure_dll_hijacking_%28dwmapi.dll%29
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/43026
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201101-09.xml
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4435
http://www.acrossecurity.com/aspr/ASPR-2010-11-05-1-PUB.txt
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb10-26.html
http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/securityfocus/bugtraq/2010-09/msg00070.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/514653/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/44671

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