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CVE-2011-2140

90
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-2140 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player and AIR across Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and Android platforms, allowing for arbitrary code execution or denial of service. With a CVSS score of 10.0 and a FAUCET Risk Score of 100/100, it represents a severe threat due to its network-exploitable nature and low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not on the KEV catalog, multiple public exploits exist, including Metasploit modules and ExploitDB entries, indicating readily available attack tools. The vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, suggesting widespread awareness and potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 10.3.181.36CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0.21.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:6.0.21.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0.79CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:6.0.79:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:7.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
82.26%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Adobe Flash Player MP4 SequenceParameterSetNALUnit Buffer Overflow · Aug 9, 2011
ExploitDB: EDB-18479 · Feb 10, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.8226 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 51,466 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

adobepatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Extras for RHEL 4Fixed in: acroread-0:9.4.6-1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: flash-plugin-0:10.3.183.5-1.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: acroread-0:9.4.6-1.el6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:10.3.183.5-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: acroread-0:9.4.6-1.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2011-2140Critical

flash-plugin: multiple arbitrary code execution flaws (APSB-11-21)

Aug 9, 2011

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00006.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00007.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2011-08/msg00008.html
secunia.com / advisories/48308
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14074
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb11-21.html
PatchVendor Advisory
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2011-1144.html
us-cert.gov / cas/techalerts/TA11-222A.html
US Government Resource