# CVE-2014-8439: Adobe Flash Player Dereferenced Pointer Vulnerability

> CVE-2014-8439: Adobe Flash Player Dereferenced Pointer Vulnerability. CVSS 8.8 (CVSS 3.1), in CISA KEV.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2014-8439
Last updated: 2025-10-22T00:05:34Z

- Published: 2014-11-25 23:00 UTC · Updated: 2025-10-22 00:05 UTC · Assigner: adobe
- CVSS: 8.8 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: High · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS: 20.4%, 97th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: yes, added 2022-05-25, federal due date 2022-06-15, ransomware use: Unknown

## Description

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.258 and 14.x and 15.x before 15.0.0.239 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.424 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 15.0.0.293, Adobe AIR SDK before 15.0.0.302, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 15.0.0.302 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (invalid pointer dereference) via unspecified vectors.

## CISA required action

The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

## Affected vendors and products

- Adobe: Flash Player

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-8439)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8439)
- [http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-22.html](http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-22.html)
- [http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-26.html](http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb14-26.html)
- [http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00020.html](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-11/msg00020.html)
- [http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-12/msg00001.html](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-12/msg00001.html)
- [http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-12/msg00004.html](http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-12/msg00004.html)
- [http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1915.html](http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1915.html)
- [http://secunia.com/advisories/60217](http://secunia.com/advisories/60217)
- [https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98932](https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98932)
- [https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002768.html](https://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002768.html)
- [http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71289](http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71289)
- [http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031259](http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031259)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2014-8439 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2014-8439.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2014-8439 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:48:28.205Z