Adobe · Flash Player
CVE-2015-3043
Adobe Flash Player Memory Corruption Vulnerability
What it is
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.
CISA: A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player that allows an attacker to perform remote code execution.
What to do
The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
Deadline for US federal agencies: March 24, 2022
- Added to the CISA list
- March 3, 2022
- Published
- April 14, 2015
- Severity
- High 7.8 CVSS 3.1
- Chance of attacks in the next 30 days (EPSS)
- 74% in the top 0.5% of all known vulnerabilities
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- More details
- NVD · CVE.org · CISA
All references (10)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00011.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-07
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0813.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00013.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00012.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74062
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032105
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37536/
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-06.html
More exploited flaws from Adobe
| Added | Vulnerability | Product | Severity | Attack chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 17, 2024 | Incorrect Default Permissions | Flash Player | High 8.8 | 11% |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Code Execution | Flash Player | High 8.8 | 11% |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Integer Underflow Vulnerablity | Flash Player | High 8.8 | 99.9% |
| Sep 17, 2024 | Double Free Vulnerablity | Flash Player | High 8.8 | 25% |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Memory Corruption | Flash Player | High 7.8 | 83% |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Unspecified | Flash Player | High 7.8 | 64% |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Memory Corruption | Flash Player | High 7.8 | 91% |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) | Flash Player | Medium 6.1 | 6.2% |
Sources: Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (CISA, public domain), CVE records (cve.org) and EPSS (FIRST). The chance of attacks is the EPSS estimate that someone will try to exploit the flaw in the next 30 days.