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medium 4.6

CVE-2009-0521 json

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 9.x before 9.0.159.0 and 10.x before 10.0.22.87 on Linux allows local users to ob…

published 2009-02-26 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-0525

cvss
4.6
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 9.x before 9.0.159.0 and 10.x before 10.0.22.87 on Linux allows local users to obtain sensitive information or gain privileges via a crafted library in a directory contained in the RPATH.

Patch / fix

  • flash-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 10.0.22.87-1.el5

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:0332

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2009-0521 updated cvss 4.4

flash-plugin: Linux-specific information disclosure (privilege escalation)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 10.0.22.87-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 10.0.22.87-1.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:0332

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

References

Sources

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