Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability · CVE-2011-0559

Adobe Flash Player Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Published Nov 16, 2012 · catalog updated Nov 16, 2012 · Adobe Flash Player

Patch now

CVE-2011-0559 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Adobe Flash Player against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Severity
Unknown—
Known exploitation
CISA KEV and VulnCheck KEV
EPSS
5.22%
Remediation
Remediation guidance
Affected products
vendor Adobe Flash Player

Adobe Flash Player before 10.2.152.26 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted parameters to an unspecified ActionScript method that cause a parameter to be used as an object pointer, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0560, CVE-2011-0561, CVE-2011-0571, CVE-2011-0572, CVE-2011-0573, CVE-2011-0574, CVE-2011-0578, CVE-2011-0607, and CVE-2011-0608.

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  • vendor Adobe Flash Playerversion unspecified

How to fix CVE-2011-0559

What to do

Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.

Should you patch?

CVE-2011-0559 is in the CISA known-exploited catalog. Confirm Adobe Flash Player against the vendor advisory and apply that fix. The CVSS score does not change the priority.

Which versions are affected?

Affected version ranges are not on this record. Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

What should an analyst verify?

No weakness class is stored. EPSS 5.22%. The CISA KEV listing is the exploitation evidence. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.

Code

The project this record applies to. Exploit listings stay in References.

No public source repository is identified for this product.

Timeline

Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.

  1. Nov 16, 2012 · VulnCheck KEV

    Detected

    Adobe Flash Player before 10.2.152.26 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted parameters to an unspecified ActionScript method that cause a parameter to be used as an object pointer, a different vulnerability than CVE-2011-0560, CVE-2011-0561, CVE-2011-0571, CVE-2011-0572, CVE-2011-0573, CVE-2011-0574, CVE-2011-0578, CVE-2011-0607, an

  2. Nov 16, 2012 · CISA KEV

    Known exploited

    Apply remediations or mitigations per vendor instructions or discontinue use of the product if remediation or mitigations are unavailable.

Sources

  • CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2011-0559

    Official CVE identifier

    cve.org
  • FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2011-0559

    30-day exploitation probability 5.2%

    first.org
  • VulnCheck KEVConfirmed exploitationCVE-2011-0559

    Adobe Flash Player before 10.2.152.26 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted parameters to an unspecified ActionScript method that cause a parameter to be used as an object pointer, a different vulnerability than CV

    vulncheck.com

References

Freshness

Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.