CVE-2014-8439
Adobe Flash Player: Dereferenced Pointer
As of , CVE-2014-8439 in Adobe Flash Player is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch soon.
- Exploited
- Yes: CISA listed it on 25 May 2022
- US federal deadline
- 15 June 202221 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
- Used in ransomware campaigns
- Not known to CISA
- EPSS score
- 0.20Higher than 97% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS when listed
- 0.04 on 25 May 2022EPSS on the day CISA listed it.
- Public exploit
- None foundNeither Metasploit nor Exploit-DB lists one.
- Fix
- No vendor link in CISA's entry
What CISA says to do
The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
CISA's required action
What the flaw is
Adobe Flash Player has a vulnerability in the way it handles a dereferenced memory pointer which could lead to code execution.
CISA's description
Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.258 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.239 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.424 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 15.0.0.293, Adobe AIR SDK before 15.0.0.302, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 15.0.0.302 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors.
The CVE record's description, from adobe
- CVE published
- 25 November 2014
- Assigned by
- adobe
- CVSS
- 8.8 High (CVSS 3.1, from CISA-ADP)
- CWE-416
- Use After Free
- CWE-119
- Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
- CISA SSVC, exploitation
- active
- CISA SSVC, automatable
- no
- CISA SSVC, technical impact
- total
Timeline
- The CVE record was published.
- CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- The US federal deadline to fix it.
Flash Player: other exploited entries
| Vulnerability | Product | Our group | Listed | Deadline | EPSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2014-0497Integer Underflow Vulnerablity | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.99; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.99 | ||
| CVE-2010-1297Memory Corruption | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.83; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.83 | ||
| CVE-2011-0609Unspecified | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.64; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.64 | ||
| CVE-2012-0754Memory Corruption | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.91; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.91 | ||
| CVE-2015-0311Remote Code Execution | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.86; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.86 | ||
| CVE-2015-0313Use-After-Free | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.95; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.95 | ||
| CVE-2015-3113Heap-Based Buffer Overflow | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.99; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.99 | ||
| CVE-2015-5122Use-After-Free | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.94; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.94 | ||
| CVE-2011-0611Remote Code Execution | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.99; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.99 | ||
| CVE-2012-1535Arbitrary Code Execution | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.70; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.70 |
Read further
- CVE recordcve.org
- NVD entrynvd.nist.gov
- CISA's catalogcisa.gov
- EPSS for this CVEapi.first.org