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critical 9.3

CVE-2012-0779 in the critical feed json

Adobe Flash Player before 10.3.183.19 and 11.x before 11.2.202.235 on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux; before 11.1.111.9 on Android 2.x and 3.…

published 2012-05-04 14 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2012-0811

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
87.1%
EPSS 87.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.7%
public exploits
2
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Adobe Flash Player before 10.3.183.19 and 11.x before 11.2.202.235 on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux; before 11.1.111.9 on Android 2.x and 3.x; and before 11.1.115.8 on Android 4.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file, related to an "object confusion vulnerability," as exploited in the wild in May 2012.

Patch / fix

  • adobe flash_player 10.3.183.19
  • flash-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 10.3.183.19-1.el5
  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 10.3.183.19-1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2012:0688

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2012-0779 updated cvss 6.8

flash-plugin: arbitrary code execution via object confusion (APSB12-09)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 10.3.183.19-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 10.3.183.19-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 10.3.183.19-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 10.3.183.19-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 10.3.183.19-1.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2012:0688

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/browser/adobe_flash_rtmp)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

87.09% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.