How severe is CVE-2014-8439?

CVE-2014-8439 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 20.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2014-8439: Adobe Flash Player Dereferenced Pointer

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

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

Added to KEV

2022-05-25

Remediation due

2022-06-15

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-2014-8439

Description

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.258 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.239 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.424 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 15.0.0.293, Adobe AIR SDK before 15.0.0.302, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 15.0.0.302 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors.

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

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

11 Links

Vendor advisories

Third-party advisories

60217

Vulnerability databases

Other references

Record Details

Published

2014-11-25

Last updated

2025-10-22

Assigner (CNA)

adobe

Credited to

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