CVE-2017-3061

critical

Published 2017-04-12 · 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 versions 25.0.0.127 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the SWF parser. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

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.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

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

Exploit-DB

EDB-42018 dos multiple verified

Google Security Research · 2017-05-17

Adobe Flash - Margin Handling Heap Corruption

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact

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":"25.0.0.127"}`

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.