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critical 9.3

CVE-2013-5331 in the critical feed json

Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.257 and 11.8.x and 11.9.x before 11.9.900.170 on Windows and Mac OS X and before 11.2.202.332 on Linux,…

published 2013-12-11 12 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2013-5171

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
72.5%
EPSS 72.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.4%
public exploits
2
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.257 and 11.8.x and 11.9.x before 11.9.900.170 on Windows and Mac OS X and before 11.2.202.332 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 3.9.0.1380, Adobe AIR SDK before 3.9.0.1380, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 3.9.0.1380 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted .swf content that leverages an unspecified "type confusion," as exploited in the wild in December 2013.

Patch / fix

  • adobe flash_player 11.2.202.332, 11.7.700.257, 11.8.800.175, 11.9.900.700
  • adobe air 3.9.0.1380
  • adobe air_sdk 3.9.0.1380
  • flash-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 11.2.202.332-1.el5
  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 11.2.202.332-1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2013:1818

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-2013-5331 updated cvss 6.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution flaws (APSB13-28)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.332-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.332-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.332-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.332-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.332-1.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2013:1818

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Timeline

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

Exploit prediction

72.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.4% 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

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

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.