CVE-2014-9163

CRITICALNVD 7.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-04-13), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 7.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2014-8988 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 45%CVSS: 7.8Exploit: No code on recordExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Stack-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.259 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.246 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.425 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in December 2014.

CVSS v3
7.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
84
EG Risk 84/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
EPSS PROB
45%
EPSS %ILE
98th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
45% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9163

Published

December 10, 2014

Last Modified

April 21, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Oct 26, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available. Sources: cisa.
CISA🔴 Active Exploitation

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA

Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog | CISA. Listed in CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2014-9163
Web page

Multiple Adobe Flash bugs should be UI:R, Automatable: No · Issue #196 · cisagov/vulnrichment · GitHub

https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/196

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatflash-plugin-0:11.2.202.425-1.el62014-12-10redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

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Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 23× in last 7d / 199× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,932 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 1,832 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 20:17 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-01 20:17 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-01 20:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  4. 2026-10-31 18:22 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-31 18:22 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-31 18:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-10-31 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
  8. 2026-10-30 16:28 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-30 16:28 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-30 16:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-10-30 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
  12. 2026-10-29 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
  13. 2026-10-29 14:32 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-29 14:32 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-29 14:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-10-28 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
  17. 2026-10-28 12:38 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-28 12:38 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-28 12:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-10-27 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
  21. 2026-10-27 10:43 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-27 10:43 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-27 10:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  24. 2026-10-26 08:48 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-26 08:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  1. 2026-10-25 19:58 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-25 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 45% · 98th percentile
  3. 2026-10-25 06:54 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-25 06:54 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-25 06:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  6. 2026-10-24 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 21% · 97th percentile
  7. 2026-10-24 04:59 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-24 04:59 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-24 04:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-10-23 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 21% · 97th percentile
  11. 2026-10-23 03:04 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-23 03:04 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-23 03:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  14. 2026-10-22 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 21% · 97th percentile
  15. 2026-10-22 01:09 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-22 01:09 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-22 01:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  18. 2026-10-21 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 21% · 97th percentile
  19. 2026-10-20 23:14 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-20 23:14 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-20 23:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-10-20 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 21% · 97th percentile
  23. 2026-10-19 21:19 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-19 21:19 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-19 21:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  26. 2026-10-19 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 21% · 97th percentile
  27. 2026-10-18 19:24 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-10-18 19:24 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-10-18 19:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  30. 2026-10-18 11:07 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-10-17 17:29 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-10-17 17:29 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-10-17 17:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  34. 2026-10-17 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 21% · 97th percentile
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  36. 2026-10-16 15:32 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-10-16 15:32 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-10-16 15:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  39. 2026-10-15 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 21% · 97th percentile
  40. 2026-10-15 13:35 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-10-15 13:35 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-10-15 13:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  43. 2026-10-14 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 21% · 97th percentile
  44. 2026-10-14 11:37 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-10-14 11:37 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-10-14 11:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  47. 2026-10-13 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 21% · 97th percentile
  48. 2026-10-13 09:42 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-10-13 09:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  50. 2026-10-12 21:13 UTCEG score recompute
  51. 2026-10-12 07:47 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-10-12 07:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  53. 2026-10-12 03:43 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-10-12 03:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  55. 2026-10-11 23:38 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-10-11 23:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  57. 2026-10-11 19:34 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-10-11 19:34 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-10-11 19:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  60. 2026-10-11 15:33 UTCEG score recompute
  61. 2026-10-11 15:33 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-10-11 15:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  63. 2026-10-11 13:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 21% · 97th percentile
  64. 2026-10-11 11:32 UTCEG score recompute
  65. 2026-10-11 11:32 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-10-11 11:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  67. 2026-10-11 07:29 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-10-11 07:29 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  69. 2026-10-11 03:28 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-10-11 03:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  71. 2026-10-10 23:24 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-10-10 23:24 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-10-10 23:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5ppv-vhvv-pxhh · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  74. 2026-10-10 19:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 21% · 97th percentile
  75. 2026-10-10 19:23 UTCVendor advisory

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2014-9163?
CVE-2014-9163 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on December 10, 2014. Stack-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.259 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.246 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.425 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in December 2014.
When was CVE-2014-9163 made public?
CVE-2014-9163 was made public on December 9, 2014: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Adobe Systems Incorporated, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on December 10, 2014. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 21, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2014-9163 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2014-9163 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on April 13, 2022, affecting Adobe Flash Player. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2014-9163?
CVE-2014-9163 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2014-9163?
CVE-2014-9163 affects Adobe Flash Player.
How do I remediate CVE-2014-9163?
A fix for CVE-2014-9163 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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