CVE-2015-3113
Adobe Flash Player Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 4 May 2022). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.296 and 14.x through 18.x before 18.0.0.194 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.468 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in June 2015.
- 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
- 99.81% probability · 100th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 8 July 2015
- CISA KEV
- Listed 13 April 2022 · due 4 May 2022
- Weakness
- CWE-787, CWE-122
- Affected
- adobe/flash player · opensuse/evergreen · opensuse/opensuse · suse/linux enterprise desktop · suse/linux enterprise workstation extension · hp/insight orchestration · hp/system management homepage · hp/systems insight manager · hp/version control agent · hp/version control repository manager · hp/virtual connect enterprise manager · redhat/enterprise linux desktop · redhat/enterprise linux eus · redhat/enterprise linux server · redhat/enterprise linux workstation
- Source
- psirt@adobe.com
EPSS 99.8% since 30 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
CISA notes
The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use. https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3113
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00020.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00025.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144050155601375&w=2Mailing List
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1184.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75371Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032696Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235036Issue Tracking
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=935701Issue Tracking
- https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04952467Broken Link
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-14.htmlBroken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-13Third Party Advisory
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3113.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00020.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-06/msg00025.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00002.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=144050155601375&w=2Mailing List
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1184.htmlThird Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75371Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032696Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1235036Issue Tracking
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=935701Issue Tracking
- https://h20564.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c04952467Broken Link
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-14.htmlBroken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-13Third Party Advisory
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3113.htmlThird Party Advisory
- https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/196Issue Tracking
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2015-3113US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.