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CVE-2014-9162

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-9162 is a critical information disclosure vulnerability affecting Adobe Flash Player versions prior to 13.0.0.259, 14.x through 16.x before 16.0.0.235 on Windows and OS X, and before 11.2.202.425 on Linux. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to obtain sensitive information with low attack complexity, posing a severe risk of confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. Although it is not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, SecurityWeek reported that this vulnerability was actively exploited in the wild, indicating a real-world threat despite the lack of public exploit code or Metasploit modules. The vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, reflecting its significance.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 13.0, < 13.0.0.259CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 14.0, <= 14.0.0.179CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 16.0, < 16.0.0.235CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 11.0, < 11.2.202.425CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
4.67%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0467 is in the 84th 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)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SupplementaryFixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.425-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.425-1.el6
View patch
adobevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-9162Moderate

flash-plugin: Information disclosure vulnerability (APSB14-27)

Dec 10, 2014

References

helpx.adobe.com / security/products/flash-player/apsb14-27.html
Vendor Advisory