CVE-2014-8440
Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.252 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.223 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.418 on Linux, Adobe AIR…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 81.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.252 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.223 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.418 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 15.0.0.356, Adobe AIR SDK before 15.0.0.356, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 15.0.0.356 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-0576, CVE-2014-0581, and CVE-2014-8441.
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 UncompressViaZlibVariant Uninitialized Memory (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/browser/adobe_flash_uncompress_zlib_uninitializedRank gooddisclosed 11 Nov 2014
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Adobe Flash Player - UncompressViaZlibVariant Uninitialized Memory (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36880remote, windowspublished 1 May 2015Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 36880 (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
- 20 days later
· 20 days 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)
- 81.9% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (9 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
6
- 20141112 Adobe Flash Player Byte Array Uncompress Uninitialized Memory Corruption Vulnerability (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEx_transferred
- 36880 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-24.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- adobe-flash-cve20148440-code-exec(98615) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0725 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 71047 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2014-8277 (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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