VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-5273

critical
Published 2012-10-23 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Buffer overflow in Adobe Shockwave Player before 11.6.8.638 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2012-4172, CVE-2012-4173, CVE-2012-4174, and CVE-2012-4175.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobeshockwave_player{"endIncluding":"11.6.7.637"}
adobe adobeshockwave_player1.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player2.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player3.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player4.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player5.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player6.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.0
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.0.196
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.0.196a
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.0.204
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.0.205
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.1
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.1.100
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.1.103
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.1.105
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.1.106
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.321
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.323
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.324
adobe adobeshockwave_player8.5.325
adobe adobeshockwave_player9.0.383
adobe adobeshockwave_player9.0.432
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.0.0.210
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.0.1.004
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.1.0.11
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.1.0.011
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.1.1.016
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.1.4.020
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.2.0.021
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.2.0.022
adobe adobeshockwave_player10.2.0.023
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.0.0.456
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.0.3.471
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.0.595
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.0.596
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.1.601
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.2.602
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.6.606
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.7.609
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.8.612
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.9.615
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.9.620
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.5.10.620
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.6.0.626
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.6.1.629
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.6.3.633
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.6.4.634
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.6.5.635
adobe adobeshockwave_player11.6.6.636

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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