{"id":"CVE-2014-9163","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2014-9163","generatedAt":"2026-10-31T22:34:19.658Z","title":"Adobe Flash Player Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability","description":"Stack-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.259 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.246 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.425 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in December 2014.","published":"2014-12-10T21:59:35.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:17:51.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"psirt@adobe.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-121"],"affected":["adobe/flash player"],"epss":{"score":0.4488,"percentile":0.98776,"date":"2026-10-30","history":[{"date":"2026-10-25","score":0.4488,"percentile":0.98767}]},"kev":{"listed":true,"dateAdded":"2022-04-13","dueDate":"2022-05-04","knownRansomwareCampaignUse":"Unknown","notes":"The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9163"},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 4 May 2022). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise."},"changes":[{"kind":"epss","label":"EPSS jump","at":"2026-10-25T00:00:00.000Z","detail":{"to":0.4488,"from":0.20724,"percentile":0.98767},"summary":"EPSS moved from 20.7% to 44.9% probability of exploitation in the next thirty days."}],"references":[{"url":"http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-27.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"psirt@adobe.com"},{"url":"http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-27.html","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/196","tags":["Issue Tracking"],"source":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"},{"url":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2014-9163","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9163","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}