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Actively exploited · Published Apr 13, 2011 · Assigned by adobe

CVE-2011-0611

High 8.8 Exploited

In plain English

A high-severity type confusion in Flash Player from Adobe. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on March 3, 2022). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 99.4% (higher than 99.9% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit. The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)99.4%top 0.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildYesCISA KEV since Mar 3, 2022
Attack tooling1Metasploit

CISA guidance

The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

Federal agencies must remediate by Mar 24, 2022.

Official description

Adobe Flash Player before 10.2.154.27 on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris and 10.2.156.12 and earlier on Android; Adobe AIR before 2.6.19140; and Authplay.dll (aka AuthPlayLib.bundle) in Adobe Reader 9.x before 9.4.4 and 10.x through 10.0.1 on Windows, Adobe Reader 9.x before 9.4.4 and 10.x before 10.0.3 on Mac OS X, and Adobe Acrobat 9.x before 9.4.4 and 10.x before 10.0.3 on Windows and Mac OS X allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted Flash content; as demonstrated by a Microsoft Office document with an embedded .swf file that has a size inconsistency in a "group of included constants," object type confusion, ActionScript that adds custom functions to prototypes, and Date objects; and as exploited in the wild in April 2011.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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Weakness: CWE-843 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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