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CVE-2015-3043

Adobe Flash Player Memory Corruption Vulnerability

KEVCRITICAL 9.8EPSS 73.9%

Does this matter?

Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 24 March 2022). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.

Description

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.281 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.169 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.457 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2015, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-0347, CVE-2015-0350, CVE-2015-0352, CVE-2015-0353, CVE-2015-0354, CVE-2015-0355, CVE-2015-0360, CVE-2015-3038, CVE-2015-3041, and CVE-2015-3042.

CVSS 3.1
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
73.86% probability · 99th percentile
CISA KEV
Listed 3 March 2022 · due 24 March 2022
Weakness
CWE-787
Affected
adobe/flash player · novell/suse linux enterprise desktop · novell/suse linux enterprise workstation extension · opensuse/evergreen · opensuse/opensuse · redhat/enterprise linux desktop · redhat/enterprise linux eus · redhat/enterprise linux server · redhat/enterprise linux server aus · redhat/enterprise linux server from rhui · redhat/enterprise linux workstation
Source
psirt@adobe.com

CISA notes

The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3043

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.