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CVE-2011-0557
Integer overflow in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.9.620 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Director movie with a…
- 9.3HighCVSS base score
- 4.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Integer overflow in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.5.9.620 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Director movie with a large count value in 3D assets type 0xFFFFFF45 record, which triggers a "faulty allocation" and memory corruption.
Timeline
ID reserved
By adobe
- 21 days later
· 21 days later
Published
- 13 years later
· 13 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High9.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.9% · top 7.8% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 9.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- shockwave-overflow-code-exec(65259) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- ADV-2011-0335 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-01.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1025056 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 46330 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20110208 ZDI-11-079: Adobe Shockwave Player 0xFFFFFF45 Record Count Element Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2011-0575 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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