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critical 9.8

CVE-2017-3061 in the critical feed json

Adobe Flash Player versions 25.0.0.127 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the SWF parser.

published 9y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2017-12202

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
24.7%
EPSS 24.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Adobe Flash Player versions 25.0.0.127 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the SWF parser. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Patch / fix

  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 25.0.0.171ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 25.0.0.171ubuntu0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-3061

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 25.0.0.148-1.el6_9

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:0934

  • flash-player SLED 12 SP1, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP1 25.0.0.148-165.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:0990-1

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2017-3061 updated cvss 8.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB17-10

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 25.0.0.148-1.el6_9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 25.0.0.148-1.el6_9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 25.0.0.148-1.el6_9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0934

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Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-42018)

Exploit prediction

24.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-42018 Adobe Flash - Margin Handling Heap Corruption dos, 2017-05-17

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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

  • n/a Adobe Flash Player 25.0.0.127 and earlier.

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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