Actively exploited · Published Feb 2, 2015 · Assigned by adobe
CVE-2015-0313
High 7.8 Exploited
In plain English
A high-severity use-after-free in Flash Player from Adobe. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on April 13, 2022). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 95.3% (higher than 99.9% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, public proof-of-concept code. The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
CISA guidance
The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
Federal agencies must remediate by May 4, 2022.
Official description
Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.269 and 14.x through 16.x before 16.0.0.305 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.442 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in February 2015, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-0315, CVE-2015-0320, and CVE-2015-0322.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-416 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
References
- 1031686 vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0238 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- 62895 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131189/Adobe-Flash-Player-ByteArray-With-Workers-Use-After-Free.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/2755801 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- 117853 vdb-entry, x_refsource_OSVDB
- 62777 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
- adobe-flash-cve20150313-code-exec(100641) vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
- 62528 third-party-advisory, x_refsource_SECUNIA
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0237 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- SUSE-SU-2015:0236 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-04.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- 72429 vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID
- 36579 exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-02.html x_refsource_CONFIRM
- SUSE-SU-2015:0239 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2015-0313 government-resource
- https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/196 issue-tracking