CVE-2014-0497
Integer underflow in Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.261 and 11.8.x through 12.0.x before 12.0.0.44 on Windows and Mac OS X, and before…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 99.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.1% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 17 Sept 2024
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Integer underflow in Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.261 and 11.8.x through 12.0.x before 12.0.0.44 on Windows and Mac OS X, and before 11.2.202.336 on Linux, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Adobe Flash Player Integer Underflow Vulnerablity.
- Added
- 17 Sept 2024
- Fix due (US federal)
- 8 Oct 2024
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
The impacted product is end-of-life (EoL) and/or end-of-service (EoS). Users should discontinue utilization of the product.
ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 17 Sept 2024.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- Adobe Flash Player Integer Underflow Remote Code Execution (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/adobe_flash_avm2Rank normaldisclosed 5 Feb 2014
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Adobe Flash Player - Integer Underflow Remote Code Execution (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 33212remote, windowspublished 6 May 2014Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 33212 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By adobe
- 47 days later
· 47 days later
Published
- 11 years later
· 11 years later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 13 months later
· 13 months 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 99.9% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References17
- 33212 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-04.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/02/stable-channel-update.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2014:0221 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:0137 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 102849 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 65327 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 56799 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1029715 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 56737 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 56437 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0203 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 56780 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0197 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 56839 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- adobe-flash-cve20140497-code-exec(90884) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2014-0497 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
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)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-0528 (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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