CVE-2010-1240

HIGHCVSS v2 · 9.39.3
EchelonGraph scoreLOW confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS v2 base score.

This CVE was only ever scored under CVSS v2.0. NVD CVSS v2.0 base 9.3 — NVD rates that HIGH (NVD's v2 bands: LOW 0.0–3.9 / MEDIUM 4.0–6.9 / HIGH 7.0–10.0; no CRITICAL band). Vector AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. CVSS v2 is an older, coarser metric than v3.1/v4.0 (no Scope, no User Interaction, no Attack Requirements), so it is not directly comparable to a v3 or v4 score. NVD has never re-scored this record under v3. EPSS predicts 74% exploitation probability in the next 30 days; it does not lift the v2 base. EPSS sets EG Risk's exploitation input. Confidence: LOW.

Triggered by: NVD CVSS v2.0 (legacy fallback)
Sources: NVD CVSS v2.0
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekWeaponized

Also known asEUVD-2010-1270 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-r9c9-qvgh-48mx (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.3EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High exploitation likelihood — EPSS 74%
  • Public exploit code is available (Metasploit, Exploit-DB, marked verified by Exploit-DB, other public proof-of-concept code)
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 74%CVSS v2: 9.3Exploit: Metasploit · Exploit-DB (verified) · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3.3, and 8.x before 8.2.3 on Windows and Mac OS X, do not restrict the contents of one text field in the Launch File warning dialog, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick users into executing an arbitrary local program that was specified in a PDF document, as demonstrated by a text field that claims that the Open button will enable the user to read an encrypted message.

CVSS v2.0 (legacy)
9.3HIGHNVD never assigned a CVSS v3 rating to this CVE
EG Score
9.3HIGHlow confidence
EG Risk
71
EG Risk 71/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity93% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.3 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation74% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
74%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.3): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.3 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.3 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.NVD CVSS v2.0 · CVSS v2.0AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
EG Likelihood
74% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-25). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

April 5, 2010

Last Modified

April 29, 2026

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatacroread-0:9.3.3-1.el52010-06-30redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

All Vendor Advisories

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Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

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Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 95 of 128 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. 5 repeat rows among the latest 100 are merged into the row they repeat. The 33 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-25 20:20 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-25 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 74% · 99th percentile
  3. 2026-10-25 13:09 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-25 13:09 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-25 13:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r9c9-qvgh-48mx · GitHub severity HIGH
  6. 2026-10-24 15:22 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-24 15:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r9c9-qvgh-48mx · GitHub severity HIGH
  8. 2026-10-23 17:35 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-23 17:35 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-23 17:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r9c9-qvgh-48mx · GitHub severity HIGH
  11. 2026-10-22 19:48 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-22 19:48 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-22 19:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r9c9-qvgh-48mx · GitHub severity HIGH
  14. 2026-10-22 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 74% · 99th percentile
  15. 2026-10-21 22:01 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-21 22:01 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-21 22:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r9c9-qvgh-48mx · GitHub severity HIGH
  18. 2026-10-21 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 74% · 99th percentile
  19. 2026-10-20 23:29 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-20 23:29 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-20 23:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r9c9-qvgh-48mx · GitHub severity HIGH
  22. 2026-10-20 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 74% · 99th percentile
  23. 2026-10-20 01:42 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-20 01:42 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-20 01:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r9c9-qvgh-48mx · GitHub severity HIGH
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  1. 2026-10-19 00:41 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-19 00:41 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-19 00:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r9c9-qvgh-48mx · GitHub severity HIGH
  4. 2026-10-18 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 74% · 99th percentile
  5. 2026-10-18 11:39 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-18 02:53 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-18 02:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r9c9-qvgh-48mx · GitHub severity HIGH
  8. 2026-10-17 05:03 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-17 05:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r9c9-qvgh-48mx · GitHub severity HIGH
  10. 2026-10-16 06:49 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-16 06:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r9c9-qvgh-48mx · GitHub severity HIGH
  12. 2026-10-15 16:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 74% · 99th percentile
  13. 2026-10-15 05:30 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-15 05:30 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r9c9-qvgh-48mx · GitHub severity HIGH
  15. 2026-10-14 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 74% · 99th percentile
  16. 2026-10-14 01:10 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-14 01:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r9c9-qvgh-48mx · GitHub severity HIGH
  18. 2026-10-13 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 74% · 99th percentile
  19. 2026-10-12 21:17 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-12 21:17 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-12 21:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-r9c9-qvgh-48mx · GitHub severity HIGH
  22. 2026-10-12 01:49 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-11 13:38 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 74% · 99th percentile
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  53. 2026-07-23 00:05 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 7.1 HIGH
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  55. 2026-07-22 14:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 73% · 99th percentile
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Publicly available exploits

(7 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (2 Metasploit modules, 3 Exploit-DB entries, 2 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-16671✓ verified
    Published Dec 16, 2010

    Adobe PDF - Embedded EXE Social Engineering (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-16682✓ verified
    Published Dec 16, 2010

    Adobe PDF - Escape EXE Social Engineering (No JavaScript) (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/windows/fileformat/adobe_pdf_embedded_exe_nojs✓ verified
    Published Aug 24, 2010

    Adobe PDF Escape EXE Social Engineering (No JavaScript)

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-11987✓ verified
    Published Mar 31, 2010

    Adobe Reader - Escape From '.PDF' Execute Embedded Executable

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/windows/fileformat/adobe_pdf_embedded_exe✓ verified
    Published Aug 19, 2009

    Adobe PDF Embedded EXE Social Engineering

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoComarothmann/Embedded-Backdoor-Connection
    Published Jan 26, 2022

    This demonstration video shows how we can control the victim's device by sending the innocent-looking PDF file to the target which actually consists of embedded payload. The exploit was made public as CVE-2010-1240.

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCJasmoon99/Embedded-PDF
    Published Jun 5, 2021

    This demonstration video shows how we can control the victim's device by sending the innocent-looking PDF file to the target which actually consists of embedded payload. The exploit was made public as CVE-2010-1240.

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(4)

What is CVE-2010-1240?
CVE-2010-1240 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on April 5, 2010. Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3.3, and 8.x before 8.2.3 on Windows and Mac OS X, do not restrict the contents of one text field in the Launch File warning dialog, which makes it easier for remote attackers to trick users into executing an arbitrary local program that was specified in a PDF…
When was CVE-2010-1240 made public?
CVE-2010-1240 was made public on March 31, 2010: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, MITRE Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on April 5, 2010. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 29, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2010-1240 actively exploited?
CVE-2010-1240 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EchelonGraph's EG-KEV model places it in Tier 2 (Weaponized), which is not evidence of exploitation: a Metasploit module exists for it, and Exploit-DB marks a public exploit for it as verified. EchelonGraph does not test whether exploit code works. FIRST EPSS estimates a 74% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (99th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
How do I remediate CVE-2010-1240?
A fix for CVE-2010-1240 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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