CVE-2002-1881: Macromedia Flash Player

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Macromedia Flash Player 4.0 r12 through 6.0.47.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (web browser crash) via malformed content in a Flash Shockwave (.SWF) file, as demonstrated by by ROT13 encoding the body of the file but not the headers.

Affected products

• Macromedia Flash Player: version 4.0_r12 only; version 5.0 only; version 5.0_r50 only; version 6.0 only; version 6.0.29.0 only; version 6.0.40.0 only; …

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.