How severe is CVE-2011-0609?

CVE-2011-0609 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 63.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2011-0609: Adobe Flash Player Unspecified

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player Unspecified Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-06-08

Remediation due

2022-06-22

Required action
The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-0609

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.13 and earlier on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris; 10.1.106.16 and earlier on Android; Adobe AIR 2.5.1 and earlier; and Authplay.dll (aka AuthPlayLib.bundle) in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x through 9.4.2 and 10.x through 10.0.1 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted Flash content, as demonstrated by a .swf file embedded in an Excel spreadsheet, and as exploited in the wild in March 2011.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

22 Links

Record Details

Published

2011-03-15

Last updated

2025-10-22

Assigner (CNA)

adobe

Credited to

CVE record data © The MITRE Corporation, used under the CVE Terms of Use. Exploited-in-the-wild data from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (CC0). Exploit prediction scores by FIRST EPSS (first.org/epss). This site is not endorsed or certified by MITRE, NVD, CISA, or FIRST.