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CVE-2012-4168

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-4168 is a cross-domain content reading vulnerability affecting multiple versions of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR across various operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. This medium-complexity vulnerability allows remote attackers to read content from a different domain by enticing a user to visit a crafted website. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has received some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness. The CVSS score of 4.3 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N) reflects its potential for partial confidentiality impact without affecting integrity or availability.

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

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
83.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0257 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 19,955 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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-2012-4168Moderate

flash-plugin: cross-domain information leak flaw (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