CVE-2017-11225: Adobe Flash Player

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 6.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Adobe Flash Player 27.0.0.183 and earlier versions. This vulnerability is an instance of a use after free vulnerability in the Primetime SDK metadata functionality. The mismatch between an old and a new object can provide an attacker with unintended memory access -- potentially leading to code corruption, control-flow hijack, or an information leak attack. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

• Adobe Flash Player: up to and including 27.0.0.183
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only

Published 2017-12-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.