CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-0502
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
Adobe Flash Player Double Free Vulnerablity — Adobe Flash Player
Adobe Flash Player contains a double free vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.
- Added to KEV
- 2024-09-17
- Remediation due
- 2024-10-08
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Required action
- The impacted product is end-of-life (EoL) and/or end-of-service (EoS). Users should discontinue utilization of the product.
- Notes
- https://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/end-of-life-alternative.html#eol-alternative-faq ; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-0502
- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2014-02-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-415
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.
Affected configurations
• adobe flash player (< 11.7.700.269)
• adobe flash player (>= 11.8.800.94 < 12.0.0.70)
• adobe adobe air sdk (< 4.0.0.1628)
• adobe flash player (< 11.2.202.341)
• adobe adobe air (< 4.0.0.1628)
• opensuse opensuse 11.4
• opensuse opensuse 12.3
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux eus 6.5
• redhat enterprise linux server 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux server 6.0
• redhat enterprise linux server aus 6.5
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 5.0
• redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-415 Double Free weakness
References
- http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-07.html Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00014.html Mailing List
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00015.html Mailing List
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00017.html Mailing List
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0196.html Third Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-04.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://www.alienvault.com/open-threat-exchange/blog/analysis-of-an-attack-exploiting-the-adobe-zero-day-cve-2014-0502/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2014/04/building-decoder-for-cve-2014-0502.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-07.html Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00014.html Mailing List
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00015.html Mailing List
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00017.html Mailing List
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0196.html Third Party Advisory
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-04.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://www.alienvault.com/open-threat-exchange/blog/analysis-of-an-attack-exploiting-the-adobe-zero-day-cve-2014-0502/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2014/04/building-decoder-for-cve-2014-0502.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2014-0502 US Government Resource