Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-3591

Title: Macromedia Flash Player RCE

DoS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2005-3591

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Nov 16, 2005

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

10.45%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-3591: Macromedia Flash plugin (1) Flash.ocx 7.0.19.0 (Windows) and earlier and (2) libflashplayer.so before 7.0.25.0 (Unix) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via parameters to the ActionDefineFunction ActionScript call in a SWF file, which causes an improper memory access condition, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-2628.

Impacted Vendors

gnu 1

macromedia 1

Reference Links

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113140426614670&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/17430/ http://secunia.com/advisories/17437/ http://secunia.com/advisories/17481/ http://secunia.com/advisories/17626/ http://secunia.com/advisories/17738/ http://securityreason.com/securityalert/149 http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/mpsb05-07.html http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/910550.mspx http://www.sec-consult.com/226.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15334 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2317 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23022 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113140426614670&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/17430/ http://secunia.com/advisories/17437/ http://secunia.com/advisories/17481/ http://secunia.com/advisories/17626/ http://secunia.com/advisories/17738/ http://securityreason.com/securityalert/149 http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/mpsb05-07.html http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/910550.mspx http://www.sec-consult.com/226.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15334 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2317 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23022

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-3591 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1331

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

November 16, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.