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CVE-2012-0753

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-0753 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting Adobe Flash Player across multiple platforms, including Windows, macOS, Linux, Solaris, and Android. This flaw allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or trigger a denial of service by enticing users to open specially crafted MP4 data. With a CVSS score of 9.3, it represents a high-severity risk, requiring no authentication and moderate attack complexity, but leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 10.3.183.15CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.0, < 11.1.102.62CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 11.1.111.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 11.1.115.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0427 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 8,915 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 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 (3)

adobepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:10.3.183.15-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:10.3.183.15-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-0753Critical

flash-plugin: multiple code execution flaws (APSB12-03)

Feb 15, 2012

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-02/msg00014.html
Broken Link
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-0144.html
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/48265
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/48819
Broken Link
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201204-07.xml
Third Party Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A14795
Third Party Advisory
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A15601
Third Party Advisory
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb12-03.html
Broken LinkPatchVendor Advisory