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CVE-2011-2424

31
FAUCET Score

CVE-2011-2424 describes a critical memory corruption vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR across multiple operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Linux, Solaris, and Android. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or trigger a denial of service by enticing a user to open a specially crafted SWF file. With a CVSS score of 9.3, this vulnerability is highly severe, indicating a network-based attack with medium complexity that could lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

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

9.3HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.91%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0691 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 8,918 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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
View patch
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-2011-2424Critical

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

Aug 9, 2011

References

blogs.adobe.com / asset/2011/08/how-did-you-get-to-that-number.html
googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com / 2011/08/fuzzing-at-scale.html
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14199
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15869
twitter.com / taviso/statuses/101046246277521409
twitter.com / taviso/statuses/101046396790128640
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