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CVE-2014-0491

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0491 describes a critical vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, Adobe AIR, Adobe AIR SDK, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler across Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux platforms. This flaw allows attackers to bypass unspecified protection mechanisms through unknown vectors. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it represents a severe risk, indicating a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity, potentially leading to 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
>= 11.0, < 11.7.700.260CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.8, < 11.8.800.175CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.9, < 12.0.0.38CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 4.0.0.1390CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:adobe_air_sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.0, < 11.2.202.335CPE 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
7.12%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0712 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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)

adobepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.335-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.335-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-0491Critical

flash-plugin: security protection bypass (APSB14-02)

Jan 14, 2014

References

helpx.adobe.com / security/products/flash-player/apsb14-02.html
PatchVendor Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-01/msg00006.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0028.html
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/56516
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/56636
Third Party Advisory
securitytracker.com / id/1029602
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry