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CVE-2012-5250

30
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5250 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR across multiple operating systems, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely with low attack complexity. While the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity and potential for complete compromise, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 10.3.183.25CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.1.85.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:10.1.85.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.1.102.64CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:10.1.102.64:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.2.152.26CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:10.2.152.26:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.2.152.32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:10.2.152.32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
7.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0727 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 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

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)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.243-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.243-1.el6
View patch
adobevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-5250Critical

flash-plugin: multiple code-execution flaws (APSB12-22)

Oct 8, 2012

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00034.html
osvdb.org / 86027
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/79071
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb12-22.html
Vendor Advisory