THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2012-0772
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2012-0772

Flash Player vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
5.9%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
An unspecified ActiveX control in Adobe Flash Player before 10.3.183.18 and 11.x before 11.2.202.228, and AIR before 3.2.0.2070, on Windows does not properly perform URL security domain checking, which allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unknown vectors.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Flash Player
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2012-03-28

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2012-0772

  • Confirm whether Adobe Flash Player is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2012-0772.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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