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CVE-2014-0551

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0551 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting Adobe Flash Player, Adobe AIR, and associated SDKs across Windows, OS X, and Linux platforms. With a CVSS score of 10.0, it allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service. While no public exploit code is available and it's not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, the vulnerability garnered significant media attention and community discussion at the time, indicating its perceived importance.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 14.0.0.178CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:adobe_air:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.0.0.83CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:adobe_air:13.0.0.83:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.0.0.111CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:adobe_air:13.0.0.111:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.0.0.110CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:adobe_air:14.0.0.110:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.0.0.137CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:adobe_air:14.0.0.137:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
5.80%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.3%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0580 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 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-0:11.2.202.406-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.406-1.el6
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-0551Critical

flash-plugin: multiple code execution or security bypass flaws (APSB14-21)

Sep 9, 2014

References

helpx.adobe.com / security/products/flash-player/apsb14-21.html
PatchVendor Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00006.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00016.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2014-09/msg00021.html
secunia.com / advisories/61089
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201409-05.xml
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/95821
securityfocus.com / bid/69702
securitytracker.com / id/1030822