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CVE-2012-4165

33
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4165 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting multiple versions of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR across Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Android platforms. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it represents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector and complete compromise potential for confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code is listed, the vulnerability received significant media coverage and community discussion at the time, indicating its high perceived threat.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 10.3, < 10.3.183.23CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.4, < 11.4.402.265CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.2, < 11.2.202.238CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.1, < 11.1.111.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.1, < 11.1.115.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
5.76%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0576 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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 (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-2012-4165Critical

flash-plugin: multiple code execution flaws (APSB12-19)

Aug 21, 2012

References

marc.info
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
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/apsb12-19.html
PatchVendor Advisory