How severe is CVE-2014-9163?

CVE-2014-9163 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 20.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2014-9163: Adobe Flash Player Stack-Based Buffer Overflow

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-04-13

Remediation due

2022-05-04

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-2014-9163

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.259 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.246 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.425 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in December 2014.

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

1 Links

Other references

http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-27.html

Record Details

Published

2014-12-10

Last updated

2025-11-17

Assigner (CNA)

adobe

Credited to

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