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high 8.8

CVE-2017-3068 in the critical feed json

Adobe Flash Player versions 25.0.0.148 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the Advanced Video Coding engine.

published 2017-05-09 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-12209

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
20.4%
EPSS 20.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Adobe Flash Player versions 25.0.0.148 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the Advanced Video Coding engine. 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-2017-3068

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 25.0.0.171-1.el6_9

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:1219

  • flash-player SLED 12 SP1, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP1 25.0.0.171-168.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:1238-1

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-2017-3068 updated cvss 8.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB17-15

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 25.0.0.171-1.el6_9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 25.0.0.171-1.el6_9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 25.0.0.171-1.el6_9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:1219

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. First public exploit (EDB-42017)

Exploit prediction

20.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-42017 Adobe Flash - AVC Deblocking Out-of-Bounds Read dos, 2017-05-17

CVSS scores

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

Affected products

  • n/a Adobe Flash Player 25.0.0.148 and earlier.

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.