CVE-2012-0779 (GCVE-0-2012-0779)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-05-04 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 18:38Summary
Adobe Flash Player before 10.3.183.19 and 11.x before 11.2.202.235 on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux; before 11.1.111.9 on Android 2.x and 3.x; and before 11.1.115.8 on Android 4.x allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted file, related to an "object confusion vulnerability," as exploited in the wild in May 2012.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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| http://osvdb.org/81656 | vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB |
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Date Public
2012-05-04 00:00
Previdian
Known Exploited Vulnerability - GCVE BCP-07 Compliant
KEV entry ID: 4cd402a5-e94f-498c-acec-50ff1dedbf6a
Exploited: Yes
Timestamps
First Seen: 2012-05-04
Asserted: 2012-05-04
Scope
Notes: Adobe Flash Player before 10.3.183.19 and 11.x before 11.2.202.235 on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux; before 11.1.111.9 on Android 2.x and 3.x; and... | Affected: Adobe / Flash Player | CVSS: 9.3 (HIGH) | EPSS: 0.87085 | Used in malware: unknown | Not yet in CISA KEV: True
Evidence
Type: Public Report
Signal: Successful Exploitation
Confidence: 70%
Source: previdian
Details
| Feed | Previdian (previdian.com) |
|---|---|
| Title | Adobe Flash Player before 10.3.183.19 and 11.x before 11.2.202.235 on Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux; before 11.1.111.9 on Android 2.x and 3.x; and... |
| Cve Id | CVE-2012-0779 |
| Vendor | Adobe |
| Ghsa Id | GHSA-52CX-XFMV-V52G |
| Product | Flash Player |
| Added Date | 2012-05-04T19:00:00.000Z |
| Cvss Score | 9.3 |
| Epss Score | 0.87085 |
| Previous Ids | |
| Cvss Severity | HIGH |
| Virtual Patch | False |
| Cvss Estimated | False |
| Epss Percentile | 0.99746 |
| Used In Malware | unknown |
| Vulnerability Id | CVE-2012-0779 |
| Ahead Of Cisa Kev | None |
| Not Yet In Cisa Kev | True |
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Created: 2026-10-02 09:10 CEST
| Updated: 2026-10-02 09:10 CEST
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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