CVE-2014-8439
Published 2014-11-25 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source psirt@adobe.com
Summary
CVE-2014-8439 is a high-severity (CVSS 8.8) vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on May 25, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by June 15, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Adobe has 83 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 11 of them linked to ransomware.
All 83 known-exploited Adobe vulnerabilities →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.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/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 Dereferenced Pointer Vulnerability
Date added: 2022-05-25 · Due: 2022-06-15
Required action: The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
References
- http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-22.html
- http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-26.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00020.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-12/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-12/msg00004.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1915.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/60217
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71289

