CVE-2014-9163

highpriority · act · 90OT risk · criticalKEV · exploitedEPSS 0.449 · 99 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP0 · Act now

Exploitable?

Yes · in the wild

CISA KEV

Likely / severe?

44.9% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 10 · high

Is it mine?

14 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

added 2022-04-13remediate by 2022-05-04

required action The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

Adobe Flash Player Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

10.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.8–10

v2.010highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 10

v3.19.8criticalAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondaryexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-119USCWE-121US

affected products (14)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
Adobe Systems Inc. Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime≤ 15.0.0.239fstec_bduRU
Adobe Systems Inc. Adobe Flash Player Extended Support Release≤ 13.0.0.258fstec_bduRU
Adobe Systems Inc. Flash Player≤ 15.0.0.242fstec_bduRU
Adobe Systems Inc. Flash Player≤ 15.0.0.239fstec_bduRU
Adobe Systems Inc. Flash Player for Linux≤ 11.2.202.425fstec_bduRU
Novell Inc. SUSE Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension≤ 12fstec_bduRU
Novell Inc. Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop≤ 12fstec_bduRU
Novell Inc. Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop≤ 11 SP3fstec_bduRU
Red Hat Inc. Red Hat Enterprise Linux≤ 5fstec_bduRU
adobe flash player11.0 → 11.2.202.425nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
adobe flash player13.0 → 13.0.0.259nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
adobe flash player14.0 → 14.0.0.179nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
adobe flash player15.0 → 15.0.0.246nvdUScpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (5)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2014-12-10modified 2026-06-17

references (5)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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