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CVE-2012-5251

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5251 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in 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 on affected systems. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it represents a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploits, public exploit code, or significant community discussion are currently identified, its high FAUCET Risk Score of 86/100 indicates its potential for severe impact if exploited.

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-2012-5251Critical

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

Oct 8, 2012

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00034.html
osvdb.org / 86028
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/79072
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb12-22.html
Vendor Advisory