CVE-2011-0609
Exploitation confirmed. First attested on 2022-06-08 by CISA-ADP, CISA KEV, GCVE · kevintel.
- Published2011-03-15
Am I affected?
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Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 10.2.154.13 and earlier on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and Solaris; 10.1.106.16 and earlier on Android; Adobe AIR 2.5.1 and earlier; and Authplay.dll (aka AuthPlayLib.bundle) in Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x through 9.4.2 and 10.x through 10.0.1 on Windows and Mac OS X, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted Flash content, as demonstrated by a .swf file embedded in an Excel spreadsheet, and as exploited in the wild in March 2011.
Timeline
dates in UTCObserved activity
isMalicious corpus · updated 2026-10-23 18:48 UTCBlock these indicators
- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2011-0609?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2011-0609?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
NVD| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.x | ≥ 9.0, ≤ 9.4.2 | no fix published | NVD |
| 10.0 | = 10.0 | no fix published | NVD |
| 10.0 | = 10.0.1 | no fix published | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9.x | ≥ 9.0, ≤ 9.4.2 | no fix published | NVD |
| 10.0 | = 10.0 | no fix published | NVD |
| 10.0 | = 10.0.1 | no fix published | NVD |
| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11.2 | = 11.2 | no fix published | NVD |
| 11.3 | = 11.3 | no fix published | NVD |
| 11.4 | = 11.4 | no fix published | NVD |
4 more products in the sources.
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Fix
- CISA’s required action: The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.due 2022-06-22
Advisories and patches
- www.adobe.comVendor Advisory
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerability
- Date Added
- 2022-06-08
- Patch Due Date
- 2022-06-22
- Ransomware Use
- Unknown
- Required Action
- The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
Sources
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Published
- 2011-03-15
- Last Modified
- 2026-06-16
- NVD status
- Analyzed
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