CVE-2014-0502
Adobe Flash Player Double Free Vulnerablity
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 8 October 2024). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
Double free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.269 and 11.8.x through 12.0.x before 12.0.0.70 on Windows and Mac OS X and before 11.2.202.341 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 4.0.0.1628 on Android, Adobe AIR SDK before 4.0.0.1628, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 4.0.0.1628 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in February 2014.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 24.82% probability · 98th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Listed 17 September 2024 · due 8 October 2024
- Weakness
- CWE-415
- Affected
- adobe/flash player · adobe/adobe air sdk · adobe/adobe air · opensuse/opensuse · suse/linux enterprise desktop · redhat/enterprise linux desktop · redhat/enterprise linux eus · redhat/enterprise linux server · redhat/enterprise linux server aus · redhat/enterprise linux workstation
- Source
- psirt@adobe.com
EPSS 24.8% since 30 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
CISA notes
The impacted product is end-of-life (EoL) and/or end-of-service (EoS). Users should discontinue utilization of the product. https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life-alternative.html#eol-alternative-faq ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0502
References
- http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-07.htmlBroken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00014.htmlMailing List
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00015.htmlMailing List
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00017.htmlMailing List
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0196.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-04.xmlThird Party Advisory
- http://www.alienvault.com/open-threat-exchange/blog/analysis-of-an-attack-exploiting-the-adobe-zero-day-cve-2014-0502/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2014/04/building-decoder-for-cve-2014-0502.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-07.htmlBroken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00014.htmlMailing List
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00015.htmlMailing List
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00017.htmlMailing List
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0196.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-04.xmlThird Party Advisory
- http://www.alienvault.com/open-threat-exchange/blog/analysis-of-an-attack-exploiting-the-adobe-zero-day-cve-2014-0502/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2014/04/building-decoder-for-cve-2014-0502.htmlExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2014-0502US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.