How severe is CVE-2014-0502?

CVE-2014-0502 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 24.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2014-0502: Adobe Flash Player Double Free

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player Double Free Vulnerablity is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2024-09-17

Remediation due

2024-10-08

Required action
The impacted product is end-of-life (EoL) and/or end-of-service (EoS). Users should discontinue utilization of the product.

CISA notes
https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life-alternative.html#eol-alternative-faq ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0502

Description

Double free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.269 and 11.8.x through 12.0.x before 12.0.0.70 on Windows and Mac OS X and before 11.2.202.341 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 4.0.0.1628 on Android, Adobe AIR SDK before 4.0.0.1628, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 4.0.0.1628 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in February 2014.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.8 HIGH

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

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableyes

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

8 Links

Vendor advisories

Other references

Record Details

Published

2014-02-21

Last updated

2025-10-22

Assigner (CNA)

adobe

Credited to

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