CVE-2017-11281

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-05-13. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekWeaponized

Also known asEUVD-2017-2915 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Public exploit code is available (Exploit-DB, marked verified by Exploit-DB)
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 34%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: Exploit-DB (verified)Exposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Adobe Flash Player has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the text handling function. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution. This affects 26.0.0.151 and earlier.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
70
EG Risk 70/100

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.
Exploitation65% × 40%
EchelonGraph's fixed weight for EG-KEV Tier 2 (Weaponized): a constant, not a probability.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.
Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from 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 or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
34%
EPSS %ILE
98th
KEV
Not listed

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
34% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track* at medium mission impactTrack at low, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade 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, Track* at medium and Attend at high mission impact.

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

Exploitation public PoC (exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from 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)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” 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

Published

December 1, 2017

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated Oct 6, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Web page

CVE-2017-11281 - PSIRT.COM

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100710
Web page

Adobe Flash - Out-of-Bounds Write in MP4 Edge Processing - Multiple dos Exploit

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42782/
Web page

Adobe Flash - Out-of-Bounds Memory Read in MP4 Parsing - Multiple dos Exploit

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42781/
Web page

Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201709-16) — Gentoo security

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-16
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Supplementary.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2702

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatflash-plugin-0:27.0.0.130-1.el6_92017-09-13redhat

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

(1)

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 27× in last 7d / 92× 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 220 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 120 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  2. 2026-11-02 01:42 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-11-02 01:42 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-02 01:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-11-01 03:32 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-11-01 03:32 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-11-01 03:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  8. 2026-10-31 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  9. 2026-10-31 05:22 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-31 05:22 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-31 05:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-10-30 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  13. 2026-10-30 07:13 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-30 07:13 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-30 07:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  16. 2026-10-29 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  17. 2026-10-29 09:02 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-29 09:02 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-29 09:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  20. 2026-10-28 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  21. 2026-10-28 10:52 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-28 10:52 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-28 10:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  24. 2026-10-27 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  25. 2026-10-27 11:47 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-27 11:47 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-27 11:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  3. 2026-10-26 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  4. 2026-10-26 13:38 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-26 13:38 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-26 13:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  7. 2026-10-25 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  8. 2026-10-25 15:09 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-25 15:09 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-10-25 15:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  11. 2026-10-24 16:58 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-24 16:58 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-24 16:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  14. 2026-10-24 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  15. 2026-10-23 18:48 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-23 18:48 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-23 18:48 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  18. 2026-10-23 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  19. 2026-10-22 20:22 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-10-22 20:22 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-10-22 20:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-10-22 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  23. 2026-10-21 22:10 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-21 22:10 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-21 22:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  26. 2026-10-21 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  27. 2026-10-20 23:59 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-10-20 23:59 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-10-20 23:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  30. 2026-10-20 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  31. 2026-10-20 01:41 UTCEG score recompute
  32. 2026-10-20 01:41 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-10-20 01:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  34. 2026-10-19 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  35. 2026-10-19 00:38 UTCEG score recompute
  36. 2026-10-19 00:38 UTCVendor advisory
  37. 2026-10-19 00:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  38. 2026-10-18 10:41 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-10-18 02:26 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-10-18 02:26 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-10-18 02:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  42. 2026-10-17 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  43. 2026-10-17 04:14 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-10-17 04:14 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-10-17 04:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  46. 2026-10-16 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  47. 2026-10-16 06:03 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-10-16 06:03 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-10-16 06:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  50. 2026-10-15 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  51. 2026-10-15 04:38 UTCEG score recompute
  52. 2026-10-15 04:38 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-10-15 04:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  54. 2026-10-14 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  55. 2026-10-14 00:33 UTCEG score recompute
  56. 2026-10-14 00:33 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-10-14 00:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  58. 2026-10-13 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
  59. 2026-10-12 20:37 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-10-12 20:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-94wf-332j-3j5q · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  61. 2026-10-12 20:36 UTCEG score recompute
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  63. 2026-10-11 13:40 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 34% · 98th percentile
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Publicly available exploits

(2 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (2 Exploit-DB entries). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-42781✓ verified
    Published Sep 25, 2017

    Adobe Flash - Out-of-Bounds Memory Read in MP4 Parsing

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-42782✓ verified
    Published Sep 25, 2017

    Adobe Flash - Out-of-Bounds Write in MP4 Edge Processing

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2017-11281?
CVE-2017-11281 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on December 1, 2017. Adobe Flash Player has an exploitable memory corruption vulnerability in the text handling function. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution. This affects 26.0.0.151 and earlier.
When was CVE-2017-11281 made public?
CVE-2017-11281 was made public on November 30, 2017: 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 1, 2017. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2017-11281 actively exploited?
CVE-2017-11281 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. EchelonGraph's EG-KEV model places it in Tier 2 (Weaponized), which is not evidence of exploitation: Exploit-DB marks a public exploit for it as verified. EchelonGraph does not test whether exploit code works. FIRST EPSS estimates a 34% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (98th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2017-11281?
CVE-2017-11281 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2017-11281?
A fix for CVE-2017-11281 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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