CVE-2011-0611
High 8.8 Exploited in the wild (KEV)
Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog
- Name
- Adobe Flash Player Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- Added to catalog
- Remediation due date (US federal)
- Required action
- The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
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.
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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8.8 (HIGH)
Score source: NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS — exploit probability
- 99% (percentile: 100) as of 1 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-843
Affected products
adobe: flash player; apple: mac os x; linux: linux kernel; microsoft: windows; oracle: solaris; google: android; adobe: acrobat reader; adobe: adobe air; adobe: acrobat; google: chrome; google: chrome os; opensuse: opensuse; suse: linux enterprise desktop
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44119 Broken LinkVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44141 Broken LinkVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/44149 Broken LinkVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/blog/210/ Broken LinkVendor Advisory
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa11-02.html Broken LinkVendor Advisory
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-07.html Broken LinkVendor Advisory
- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb11-08.html Broken LinkVendor Advisory
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0451.html Broken LinkVendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0922 Broken LinkVendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0923 Broken LinkVendor Advisory