CVE-2014-0497

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2024-09-17), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: cisa_kev, epss, ghsa, nvd
Exploited in the wild
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 100%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: cisa kev · ssvc active · Metasploit · Exploit-DB (verified) · epss top5pct · epss high · public exploitExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Integer underflow in Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.261 and 11.8.x through 12.0.x before 12.0.0.44 on Windows and Mac OS X, and before 11.2.202.336 on Linux, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
84
EG Risk 84/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity98% × 45%
Exploitation100% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
EPSS PROB
100%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

CISA SSVCTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

February 5, 2014

Last Modified

April 21, 2026

Advisory Details (6)

Auto-updated Oct 8, 2026
Patch available.
generic

Secunia Research & Vulnerability Insights | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/56799
generic

Secunia Research & Vulnerability Insights | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/56780
generic

Secunia Research & Vulnerability Insights | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/56737
generic
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0137.html
generic

Chrome Releases: Stable Channel Update

http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2014/02/stable-channel-update.html
generic

Secunia Research & Vulnerability Insights | Flexera

http://secunia.com/advisories/56437

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatflash-plugin-0:11.2.202.336-1.el62014-02-05redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(1)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 78× in last 7d / 350× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,568 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-10-10 20:30 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-10 20:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-10 16:12 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-10 16:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-10-10 11:52 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-10 11:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-10-10 07:34 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-10 07:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-10-10 03:15 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-10 03:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-10-09 22:57 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-09 22:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-10-09 18:38 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-09 18:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-10-09 14:21 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-09 14:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-10-09 09:59 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-09 09:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-10-09 05:40 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-09 05:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-10-09 01:22 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-09 01:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-10-08 21:05 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-08 21:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-10-08 16:47 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-10-08 16:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-10-08 12:29 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-08 12:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-08 08:11 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-08 08:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-10-08 03:53 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-08 03:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-10-07 23:35 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-07 23:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-10-07 19:17 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-07 19:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-10-07 14:59 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-07 14:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-10-07 10:41 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-07 10:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-10-07 06:23 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-07 06:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-10-07 02:06 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-07 02:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-10-06 21:48 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-06 21:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-10-06 17:31 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-06 17:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-10-06 13:14 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-06 13:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-10-06 08:56 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-10-06 08:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-10-06 04:39 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-10-06 04:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  30. 2026-10-06 00:22 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-10-06 00:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  32. 2026-10-05 20:04 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-10-05 20:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  34. 2026-10-05 15:47 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-10-05 15:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  36. 2026-10-05 11:28 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-10-05 11:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  38. 2026-10-05 07:10 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-10-05 07:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  40. 2026-10-05 02:52 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-10-05 02:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  42. 2026-10-04 22:31 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-10-04 22:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  44. 2026-10-04 18:14 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-10-04 18:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  46. 2026-10-04 13:57 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-10-04 13:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  48. 2026-10-04 09:40 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-10-04 09:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  50. 2026-10-04 05:20 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-10-04 05:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  52. 2026-10-04 01:03 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-10-04 01:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  54. 2026-10-03 20:45 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-10-03 20:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  56. 2026-10-03 16:28 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-10-03 16:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  58. 2026-10-03 12:11 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-10-03 12:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  60. 2026-10-03 07:53 UTCVendor advisory
  61. 2026-10-03 07:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  62. 2026-10-03 03:34 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-10-03 03:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  64. 2026-10-02 23:16 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-10-02 23:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  66. 2026-10-02 18:56 UTCEG score recompute
  67. 2026-10-02 18:56 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-10-02 18:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  69. 2026-10-02 14:38 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-10-02 14:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  71. 2026-10-02 10:21 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-10-02 10:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  73. 2026-10-02 06:04 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-10-02 06:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  75. 2026-10-02 01:46 UTCVendor advisory

Publicly available exploits

(2 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 1 Exploit-DB entry). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-33212✓ verified
    Published May 6, 2014

    Adobe Flash Player - Integer Underflow Remote Code Execution (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/windows/browser/adobe_flash_avm2✓ verified
    Published May 5, 2014

    Adobe Flash Player Integer Underflow Remote Code Execution

    Open source ↗

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Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2014-0497?
CVE-2014-0497 is a critical vulnerability published on February 5, 2014. Integer underflow in Adobe Flash Player before 11.7.700.261 and 11.8.x through 12.0.x before 12.0.0.44 on Windows and Mac OS X, and before 11.2.202.336 on Linux, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
When was CVE-2014-0497 disclosed?
CVE-2014-0497 was first published on February 5, 2014, with the most recent update on April 21, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2014-0497 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2014-0497 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 17, 2024, affecting Adobe Flash Player. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2014-0497?
CVE-2014-0497 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2014-0497?
CVE-2014-0497 affects Adobe Flash Player.
How do I remediate CVE-2014-0497?
A fix for CVE-2014-0497 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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