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CVE-2014-0553· NVD / CVE Program· CNA adobe

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.244 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.152 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Plan (action score 43/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 9.3% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 95.2% of all records.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: flash-plugin (Red Hat:rhel_extras:5::client) 0:11.2.202.406-1.el5; flash-plugin (Red Hat:rhel_extras:6) 0:11.2.202.406-1.el6.

Add it to your regular patch cycle. Upgrade to flash-plugin (Red Hat:rhel_extras:5::client) 0:11.2.202.406-1.el5; flash-plugin (Red Hat:rhel_extras:6) 0:11.2.202.406-1.el6 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.244 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.152 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.406 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 15.0.0.249 on Windows and OS X and before 15.0.0.252 on Android, Adobe AIR SDK before 15.0.0.249, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 15.0.0.249 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

CriticalCVSS 10.0 · v2.0—No exploit Fix available
Published
Sep 9, 2014
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
9.3% · 95th percentile
CWE
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Action score

43

Plan

Add it to your regular patch cycle.

CVSS
40 / 40 · 10.0 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
3 / 30 · 9.3%

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
adobeadobe air sdk
adobeflash player
adobeadobe air
opensuseopensuse
susesuse linux enterprise desktop
applemac os x
microsoftwindows
googleandroid
linuxlinux kernel

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • adobe adobe airup to 14.0.0.178 inclusive
  • adobe adobe airup to 14.0.0.179 inclusive
  • adobe adobe air13.0.0.111
  • adobe adobe air13.0.0.83
  • adobe adobe air14.0.0.110
  • adobe adobe air14.0.0.137
  • adobe adobe air sdkup to 14.0.0.178 inclusive
  • adobe adobe air sdk13.0.0.111
  • adobe adobe air sdk13.0.0.83
  • adobe adobe air sdk14.0.0.110
  • adobe adobe air sdk14.0.0.137
  • adobe flash playerup to 13.0.0.241 inclusive
  • adobe flash playerup to 11.2.202.400 inclusive
  • adobe flash player11.2.202.223
  • adobe flash player11.2.202.228
  • adobe flash player11.2.202.233
  • adobe flash player11.2.202.235
  • adobe flash player11.2.202.236
  • adobe flash player11.2.202.238
  • adobe flash player11.2.202.243

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
Red Hat:rhel_extras:5::clientflash-pluginbefore 0:11.2.202.406-1.el50:11.2.202.406-1.el5
Red Hat:rhel_extras:6flash-pluginbefore 0:11.2.202.406-1.el60:11.2.202.406-1.el6

Same product

adobe: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2015-0304Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.260 and 14.x through 16.x before 16.0.0.257 on Windows and OS X and before 11
    43Plan
  • CVE-2013-1379Adobe Flash Player before 10.3.183.75 and 11.x before 11.7.700.169 on Windows and Mac OS X, before 10.3.183.75 and 11.x before 11.2.202.280
    42Plan
  • CVE-2014-0540Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.241 and 14.x before 14.0.0.176 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.400 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 14.0.
    41Plan
  • CVE-2014-0535Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.223 and 14.x before 14.0.0.125 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.378 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 14.0.
    33Monitor
  • CVE-2014-0537Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.231 and 14.x before 14.0.0.145 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.394 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 14.0.
    31Monitor
  • CVE-2014-0508Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.275 and 11.8.x through 13.0.x before 13.0.0.182 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.350 on Linux, Ado
    21Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
red hat:flash-plugin0:11.2.202.406-1.el5 · Red Hat:rhel_extras:5::clientPackage registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
C · data can be read
Integrity
C · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
C · the service can be disrupted
Attack complexity
Low
Confidentiality impact
C
Integrity impact
C
Availability impact
C

Weakness class (CWE)

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CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

nvd-primary

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

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Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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