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CVE-2014-0538

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0538 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, AIR, and AIR SDK across Windows, OS X, Linux, and Android platforms. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely with low attack complexity. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it poses a severe risk of complete compromise to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code is readily available, it was reportedly leveraged in targeted attacks, indicating active exploitation at the time, and garnered significant media attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 11.2.202.394CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.2.202.223CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:11.2.202.223:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.2.202.228CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:11.2.202.228:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.2.202.233CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:11.2.202.233:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11.2.202.235CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:11.2.202.235:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
7.55%
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 0.0755 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

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-0:11.2.202.400-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.400-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-0538Critical

flash-plugin: multiple code execution or security bypass flaws (APSB14-18)

Aug 12, 2014

References

helpx.adobe.com / security/products/flash-player/apsb14-18.html
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/58593
secunia.com / advisories/59904
secunia.com / advisories/60710
secunia.com / advisories/60732
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201408-05.xml
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201408-16.xml
securitytracker.com / id/1030712