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CVE-2014-0553

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-0553 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, Adobe AIR, and related SDKs across Windows, OS X, and Linux platforms. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely with low attack complexity. With a CVSS score of 10.0, successful exploitation could lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code is readily available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability garnered some community discussion and media coverage at the time of its disclosure.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 14.0.0.178CPE 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_sdk: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
9.32%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0932 is in the 92nd 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-0:11.2.202.406-1.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-2014-0553Critical

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/95823
securityfocus.com / bid/69707
securitytracker.com / id/1030822