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CVE-2014-0502 kev in the critical feed json

Double free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.269 and 11.8.x through 12.0.x before 12.0.0.70 on Windows and Mac OS X and…

published 2014-02-21 12 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2014-0533

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Exploited
added 2024-09-17
epss
24.8%
EPSS 24.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Double free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.269 and 11.8.x through 12.0.x before 12.0.0.70 on Windows and Mac OS X and before 11.2.202.341 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 4.0.0.1628 on Android, Adobe AIR SDK before 4.0.0.1628, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 4.0.0.1628 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in February 2014.

Patch / fix

cisa required action The impacted product is end-of-life (EoL) and/or end-of-service (EoS). Users should discontinue utilization of the product.

  • adobe flash_player 11.7.700.269, 12.0.0.70
  • adobe air 4.0.0.1628
  • adobe air_sdk 4.0.0.1628
  • flash-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 11.2.202.341-1.el5
  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 11.2.202.341-1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2014:0196

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-2014-0502 updated cvss 6.8

flash-plugin: multiple flaws lead to arbitrary code execution (APSB14-07)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.341-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.341-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.341-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.341-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.341-1.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2014:0196

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. Added to CISA KEV
  3. CISA SSVC: exploitation active
  4. CISA patch deadline

Known exploited

Added
2 y ago
Patch by
2024-10-08 (2 y ago)
Ransomware
Not known
Required action
The impacted product is end-of-life (EoL) and/or end-of-service (EoS). Users should discontinue utilization of the product.
Vendor, product
Adobe, Flash Player
CISA name
Adobe Flash Player Double Free Vulnerablity

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Active, exploited in the wild
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

24.82% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • volatility-labs.blogspot.com https://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2014/04/building-decoder-for-cve-2014-0502.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • alienvault.com http://www.alienvault.com/open-threat-exchange/blog/analysis-of-an-attack-exploiting-the-adobe-zero-day-cve-2014-0502/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • adobe flash_player
  • adobe air
  • adobe air_sdk

Classification

Weakness

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.