adobe air CVE-2011-0611 vulnerability in Adobe and Other Products
Published on April 13, 2011

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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.

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Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Adobe Flash Player Remote Code Execution Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Adobe Flash Player contains a vulnerability which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via crafted Flash content.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by March 24, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2011-0611 can be exploited with network access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
NONE
User Interaction:
REQUIRED
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Type

What is an Object Type Confusion Vulnerability?

The program allocates or initializes a resource such as a pointer, object, or variable using one type, but it later accesses that resource using a type that is incompatible with the original type.

CVE-2011-0611 has been classified to as an Object Type Confusion vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2011-0611

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Exploit Probability

EPSS
93.61%
Percentile
99.83%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.