CVE-2017-11281

critical

Published 2017-12-01 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

9.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

10.0

Description

Adobe Flash Player has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the text handling function. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution. This affects 26.0.0.151 and earlier.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

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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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-42781 dos multiple verified

Google Security Research · 2017-09-25

Adobe Flash - Out-of-Bounds Memory Read in MP4 Parsing

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-42782 dos multiple verified

Google Security Research · 2017-09-25

Adobe Flash - Out-of-Bounds Write in MP4 Edge Processing

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

Red Hat Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
6.0	Affected	—

Linux kernel Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
-	Not affected	—

macOS Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
-	Not affected	—

Windows Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
-	Not affected	—

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
adobe	flash_player	`{"endIncluding":"26.0.0.151"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.