CVE-2014-0556
Heap-based buffer overflow 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…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 84.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow 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, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-0559.
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.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- Adobe Flash Player copyPixelsToByteArray Method Integer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/adobe_flash_copy_pixels_to_byte_arrayRank greatdisclosed 23 Sept 2014
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Adobe Flash Player - copyPixelsToByteArray Integer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36808remote, windowspublished 21 Apr 2015Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 36808 (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
- 9 months later
· 9 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)
- 84.6% · top 0.3% 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
14
- GLSA-201409-05 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- adobe-flash-cve20140556-bo(95826) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=46 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 61089 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:1130 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131516/Adobe-Flash-Player-copyPixelsToByteArray-Integer-Overflow.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2014:1110 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2014/09/exploiting-cve-2014-0556-in-flash.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2014:1124 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 69696 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 36808 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-21.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 111110 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 1030822 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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-2014-0587 (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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