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CVE-2014-0502

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0502 is a critical double free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR, affecting Windows, macOS, and Linux versions. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), it poses a significant risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The vulnerability was actively exploited in the wild in February 2014, is listed in CISA's KEV catalog, and garnered substantial community discussion and media coverage, despite no public exploit code being available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 11.7.700.269CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.8.800.94, < 12.0.0.70CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 4.0.0.1628CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:adobe_air_sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 11.2.202.341CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 4.0.0.1628CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:adobe_air:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
24.20%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Sep 17, 2024
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2420 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 14,824 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

adobepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.341-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.341-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-0502Critical

flash-plugin: multiple flaws lead to arbitrary code execution (APSB14-07)

Feb 20, 2014

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
helpx.adobe.com / security/products/flash-player/apsb14-07.html
Broken LinkPatchVendor Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00014.html
Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00015.html
Mailing List
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00017.html
Mailing List
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0196.html
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201405-04.xml
Third Party Advisory
volatility-labs.blogspot.com / 2014/04/building-decoder-for-cve-2014-0502.html
ExploitThird Party Advisory
alienvault.com / open-threat-exchange/blog/analysis-of-an-attack-exploiting-the-adobe-zero-day-cve-2014-0502
ExploitThird Party Advisory