⚠ Actively exploited
Added to CISA KEV on 2022-03-03. Federal agencies required to patch by 2022-03-24. Required action: The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use..

CVE-2012-1535 — Improper Input Validation in Adobe Flash Player

CWE-20 — Improper Input ValidationCWE-94 — Code Injection15 documents12 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
91.6%
top 0.32%
CISA KEV
KEV
Added 2022-03-03
Due 2022-03-24
Exploit
Exploited in wild
Active exploitation observed
Affected products
6
Adobe Flash PlayerOpensuseRedhat Enterprise Linux Desktop+3 more
Timeline
PublishedAug 15
KEV addedMar 3
KEV dueMar 24
Latest updateFeb 12
CISA Required Action: The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

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:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages6 packages

▶NVDadobe/flash_player< 11.3.300.271+1

Patches

Patch: www.adobe.com ↗Patch: www.adobe.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-5876-f5vv-fv9w: Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 11↗2022-05-14
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CVEList
CVE-2012-1535: Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 11↗2012-08-15
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VulnCheck
Adobe Flash Player Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability↗2012
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💥Exploits & PoCs

2
Exploit-DB
Adobe Flash Player 11.3 - Font Parsing Code Execution (Metasploit)↗2012-08-20
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Metasploit
Adobe Flash Player 11.3 Kern Table Parsing Integer Overflow↗
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
CISA
Adobe Flash Player Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability↗2022-03-03
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: code execution flaw (APSB12-18)↗2012-08-14
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🕵️Threat Intelligence

4
Talos
CVE-2012-1535: Flash 0-day In The Wild↗2012-08-16
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Talos
CVE-2012-1535: Flash 0-day In The Wild↗2012-08-16
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Krebs
Critical Security Fixes from Adobe, Microsoft↗2012-08-14
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Krebs
Critical Security Fixes from Adobe, Microsoft &#8211; Krebs on Security↗2012-08-01
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📄Research Papers

2
arXiv
Investigation of Advanced Persistent Threats Network-based Tactics, Techniques and Procedures↗2025-02-12
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arXiv
Unsupervised Anomaly-based Malware Detection using Hardware Features↗2014-03-28
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2012-1535 flash-plugin: code execution flaw (APSB12-18)↗2012-08-14
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