CVE-2010-1297 | Netskope Threat Labs

Description

This detection identifies exploitation attempts targeting CVE-2010-1297, which has a HIGH severity rating. Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.277.0 and 10.x before 10.1.53.64; Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.12610; and Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3.3, and 8.x before 8.2.3 on Windows and Mac OS X, allow remote cyberattackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted SWF content, related to authplay.dll and the ActionScript Virtual Machine 2 (AVM2) newfunction instruction, as exploited in the wild in June 2010.

Stats

First seen: February 2022
Last seen: October 2026

CVEs

CVE-2010-1297

Alert name variants

Alert Name	Engine
ByteCode-SWF.Exploit.CVE-2010-1297	ATP Sandbox Adv. Heuristics
Document-PDF.Exploit.CVE-2010-1297	ATP Sandbox Adv. Heuristics

Related IPS Signatures

Signature Name	Engine
MALWARE-CNC Phoenix exploit kit post-compromise behavior	IPS-SWG
PROTOCOL-IMAP Adobe flashplayer invalid ptr overflow	IPS-CFW

Related families

Phoenix

References

nvd.nist.gov