CVE-2014-0506
Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.275 and 11.8.x through 13.0.x before 13.0.0.182 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.350 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 13.0.0.83 on Android, Adobe AIR SDK before 13.0.0.83, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 13.0.0.83 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, and possibly bypass an Internet Explorer sandbox protection mechanism, via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by VUPEN during a Pwn2Own competition at CanSecWest 2014.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 7.6% (95th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2014-0537)
- Published
- March 27, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 17, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-0537 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- adobe / flash player
- microsoft / windows
References
- http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-09.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-04/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-04/msg00036.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-04/msg00050.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0380.html
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201405-04.xml
- http://twitter.com/thezdi/statuses/443886338077495296
- http://www.pwn2own.com/2014/03/pwn2own-results-for-wednesday-day-one/
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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