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CVE-2012-5263

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5263 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting multiple versions of Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR across Windows, macOS, Linux, and Android platforms. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service through unspecified vectors. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it represents a severe risk due to its network-accessible attack vector, low attack complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

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
4.73%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0473 is in the 84th 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

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-2012-5263Critical

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

Oct 8, 2012

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00034.html
osvdb.org / 86040
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/79084
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb12-22.html
Vendor Advisory