CVE-2012-1535
Published 2012-08-15 · Updated 2026-06-16 · Source cve@mitre.org
Summary
CVE-2012-1535 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.8) vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 3, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by March 24, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Adobe has 82 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 11 of them linked to ransomware.
All 82 known-exploited Adobe vulnerabilities →Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 11.3.300.271 on Windows and Mac OS X and before 11.2.202.238 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted SWF content, as exploited in the wild in August 2012 with SWF content in a Word document.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Adobe — Flash Player
Name: Adobe Flash Player Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
Date added: 2022-03-03 · Due: 2022-03-24
Required action: The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00012.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139455789818399&w=2
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1203.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-01.xml
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-18.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00012.html

