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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2017-2999 json

Adobe Flash Player versions 24.0.0.221 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the Primetime TVSDK functionality…

published 2017-03-14 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-12140

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.1%
EPSS 4.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Adobe Flash Player versions 24.0.0.221 and earlier have an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the Primetime TVSDK functionality related to hosting playback surface. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Patch / fix

  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 25.0.0.127-1.el6_8

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:0526

  • flash-player SLED 12 SP1, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP1 25.0.0.127-162.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2017:0703-1

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-2017-2999 updated cvss 8.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB17-07

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 flash-plugin
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 25.0.0.127-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 25.0.0.127-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 25.0.0.127-1.el6_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:0526

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Exploit prediction

4.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • n/a Adobe Flash Player 24.0.0.221 and earlier.

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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