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CVE-2012-5678

34
FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-5678 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting multiple versions of Adobe Flash Player, Adobe AIR, and Adobe AIR SDK across Windows, macOS, 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, low attack complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code is readily available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability garnered some community discussion and media coverage at the time, indicating awareness. It is not currently listed on the CISA KEV catalog as being actively exploited.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 10.3, < 10.3.183.48CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.5, < 11.5.502.135CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.2, < 11.2.202.258CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.1, < 11.1.111.29CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.1, < 11.1.115.34CPE 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
5.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0541 is in the 86th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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-0:11.2.202.258-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.258-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2012-5678Critical

flash-plugin: multiple code execution flaws (APSB12-27)

Dec 11, 2012

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00014.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2013-02/msg00033.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
adobe.com / support/security/bulletins/apsb12-27.html
PatchVendor Advisory