CVE-2014-0502

CVE-2014-0502 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 17, 2024, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by October 8, 2024. 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.

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.

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

• http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-07.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00014.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00015.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-02/msg00017.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0196.html
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-04.xml
• http://www.alienvault.com/open-threat-exchange/blog/analysis-of-an-attack-exploiting-the-adobe-zero-day-cve-2014-0502/
• https://volatility-labs.blogspot.com/2014/04/building-decoder-for-cve-2014-0502.html