THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2014-0542
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2014-0542

Adobe Air vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
4.0%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.241 and 14.x before 14.0.0.176 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.400 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 14.0.0.178 on Windows and OS X and before 14.0.0.179 on Android, Adobe AIR SDK before 14.0.0.178, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 14.0.0.178 do not properly restrict discovery of memory addresses, which allows attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-0540, CVE-2014-0543, CVE-2014-0544, and CVE-2014-0545.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Adobe Air
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
Published
2014-08-12

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 4.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2014-0542

  • Confirm whether Adobe Adobe Air is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2014-0542.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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