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CVE-2012-1535: Adobe Flash Player Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2022-03-03
• EPSS: 70.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2012-08-15 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-20

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.

Affected products

• Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier.: before 11.3.300.271; before 11.2.202.238 — fixed in 11.2.202.238, 11.3.300.271
• Opensuse: 11.4, 12.1
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 5.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 5.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 5.0
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1: 10-sp4

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.186 and earlier. 11.2.202.238, 11.3.300.271. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00010.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00012.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139455789818399&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1203.html
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-01.xml
• http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-18.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00010.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-08/msg00012.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139455789818399&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-1203.html
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201209-01.xml
• http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-18.html

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