CVE-2014-0515
Buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.279 and 11.8.x through 13.0.x before 13.0.0.206 on Windows and OS X, and before…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 94.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.279 and 11.8.x through 13.0.x before 13.0.0.206 on Windows and OS X, and before 11.2.202.356 on Linux, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2014.
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.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- Adobe Flash Player Shader Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/browser/adobe_flash_pixel_bender_bofRank greatdisclosed 28 Apr 2014
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Adobe Flash Player - Shader Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 33333remote, windowspublished 12 May 2014Verified
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
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 94.5% · top 0.1% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
8
- 67092 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0585 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0589 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- GLSA-201405-04 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2014:0605 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:0447 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1030155 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-13.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2014-0546 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2014-0515)Record last updated .