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Actively exploited · Published Apr 14, 2015 · Assigned by adobe

CVE-2015-3043

High 7.8 Exploited

In plain English

A high-severity out-of-bounds write in Flash Player from Adobe. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on March 3, 2022). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 73.9% (higher than 99.5% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit. The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)73.9%top 0.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildYesCISA KEV since Mar 3, 2022
Attack tooling1Metasploit

CISA guidance

The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

Federal agencies must remediate by Mar 24, 2022.

Official 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.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
n/a n/a n/a

Weakness: CWE-787 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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