What is CVE-2009-1868?

CVE-2009-1868 is a vulnerability in Adobe Air, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2009-07-31.

Is CVE-2009-1868 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Buffer overflow in Adobe Air

CVE-2009-1868

Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.246.0 and 10.x before 10.0.32.18, and Adobe AIR before 1.5.2, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving URL parsing.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2009-07-31 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 9.3 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.214 (97.5th percentile), scored 2026-09-28.

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 98th percentile — 97.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.214 · newest: 0.214 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Adobe Air — versions 1.0, 1.01, 1.1
Adobe Flash Player — versions 7.0, 7.0.1, 7.0.25
Adobe Flex — versions 3.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cve-scores

References

sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do (vendor-advisory)
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/52185 (vdb-entry)
lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00003.html (vendor-advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200908-04.xml (vendor-advisory)
support.apple.com/kb/HT3864
www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-13.html
oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:15955 (signature, vdb-entry)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/35902 (Patch, vdb-entry)
www.securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Sep/msg00004.html (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2009-1868?: CVE-2009-1868 is a vulnerability in Adobe Air, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2009-07-31.
Is CVE-2009-1868 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.