CVE-2017-11281
Adobe Flash Player has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the text handling function. Successful exploitation could lead to…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 33.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Adobe Flash Player has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the text handling function. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution. This affects 26.0.0.151 and earlier.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Adobe Flash - Out-of-Bounds Memory Read in MP4 Parsing (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 42781dos, multiplepublished 25 Sept 2017Verified
- Adobe Flash - Out-of-Bounds Write in MP4 Edge Processing (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 42782dos, multiplepublished 25 Sept 2017Verified
References tagged exploit2 references
- 42782 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 42781 (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
- 5 months later
· 5 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 33.1% · top 1.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
Adobe Flash Player 26.0.0.151 and earlier versions
- affected Adobe Flash Player 26.0.0.151 and earlier versions
References
8
- 100710 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- GLSA-201709-16 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 42782 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 42781 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvmnUeza9zw (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb17-28.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2702 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1039314 (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-2017-2915 (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-2017-11281)Record last updated .