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CVE-2014-0506

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0506 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability affecting Adobe Flash Player across Windows, OS X, and Linux, as well as Adobe AIR and its SDKs. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, potentially bypassing Internet Explorer sandbox protections, and was demonstrated during the Pwn2Own 2014 competition. 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. Despite its high severity and a FAUCET Risk Score of 94/100, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, and it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
12.0.0.77CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:12.0.0.77:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
7.61%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0761 is in the 90th 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 (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.350-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.350-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-0506Critical

flash-plugin: two flaws leading to code execution (APSB14-09)

Apr 8, 2014

References

helpx.adobe.com / security/products/flash-player/apsb14-09.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00012.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-04/msg00036.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2014-04/msg00050.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-0380.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201405-04.xml
twitter.com / thezdi/statuses/443886338077495296
pwn2own.com / 2014/03/pwn2own-results-for-wednesday-day-one