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
- 24.20% probability · 98th percentile
- 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
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. Refreshed daily.