Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2012-1535

96
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-1535 is an unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player versions prior to 11.3.300.271 on Windows/Mac OS X and 11.2.202.238 on Linux, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service via crafted SWF content. This vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a high impact with potential for complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, and requires user interaction (e.g., opening a malicious Word document). It was actively exploited in the wild in August 2012, with exploit code available in Metasploit and significant community discussion and media coverage confirming its widespread impact.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 11.3.300.271CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 11.2.202.238CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
70.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Mar 3, 2022
Metasploit: Adobe Flash Player 11.3 Kern Table Parsing Integer Overflow · Aug 9, 2012
ExploitDB: EDB-20624 · Aug 20, 2012
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.7038 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 11,615 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

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 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-0:11.2.202.238-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.238-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-1535Critical

flash-plugin: code execution flaw (APSB12-18)

Aug 14, 2012

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00010.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00012.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
marc.info
Mailing List
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2012-1203.html
Third Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201209-01.xml
Third Party Advisory
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb12-18.html
Not ApplicablePatchVendor Advisory