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Actively exploited · Published Jul 8, 2015 · Assigned by adobe

CVE-2015-5119

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 March 3, 2022). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 98.6% (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.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.8High
Exploit odds (30 days)98.6%top 0.1% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildYesCISA KEV since Mar 3, 2022
Attack tooling2Metasploit, Public PoC

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

Use-after-free vulnerability in the ByteArray class in the ActionScript 3 (AS3) implementation in Adobe Flash Player 13.x through 13.0.0.296 and 14.x through 18.0.0.194 on Windows and OS X and 11.x through 11.2.202.468 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted Flash content that overrides a valueOf function, as exploited in the wild in July 2015.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
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Weakness: CWE-416 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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