CVE-2014-0497 — Adobe Flash Player Integer Underflow Vulnerablity

CVE-2014-0497 (Adobe Flash Player) is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog since 2024-09-17. Adobe Flash Player contains an integer underflow vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to execute… See the required fix, due date and advisories.

Exploitation status

CVE-2014-0497 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added 2024-09-17. Adobe Flash Player contains an integer underflow vulnerability that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code.

Advisory facts

Vendor or project
Adobe
Affected product
Flash Player
Added to CISA KEV
2024-09-17
US federal remediation due date
2024-10-08
Ransomware association
Unknown
EPSS score
—
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-191

Remediation: the required action

The impacted product is end-of-life (EoL) and/or end-of-service (EoS). Users should discontinue utilization of the product.

Wording published by CISA for this catalog entry. It is the baseline action, not a decision about your environment: whether this exposure matters for you depends on where the affected component runs, what it is exposed to and who owns it.

From advisory to a decision you can defend

A catalog entry tells you a vulnerability is being exploited somewhere. It does not tell you whether it matters in your estate, who owns the fix, or what evidence an auditor will ask for later. That is the work VulnTrek does: it takes findings from the tools you already run, decides which exposure actually matters, routes it to an owner, keeps remediation human-approved and retains the lineage as evidence.

Sourced from public upstream advisories (CISA KEV, ENISA EUVD, vendor PSIRTs) mirrored daily. Informational only — not a remediation decision, not legal advice, and the absence of a record is not evidence of safety.