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CVE-2014-0540

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0540 is a critical vulnerability affecting Adobe Flash Player and AIR across Windows, OS X, and Linux platforms. It allows attackers to bypass Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) by discovering memory addresses, facilitating further exploitation. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability poses a severe risk, enabling complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no authentication required. While there is no public exploit code available, it was reportedly leveraged in targeted attacks, and it has garnered some community and media attention.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 14.0.0.137CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:adobe_air_sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.0.0.83CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:adobe_air_sdk:13.0.0.83:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.0.0.111CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:adobe_air_sdk:13.0.0.111:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.0.0.110CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:adobe_air_sdk:14.0.0.110:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 14.0.0.137CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:adobe_air:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0398 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 51,506 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-2014-0540Critical

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/60710
secunia.com / advisories/60732
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201408-05.xml
securitytracker.com / id/1030712