CVE-2015-5119
CRITICAL severity · CVSS 9.8 · Use-after-free · actively exploited (CISA KEV)
9.8CVSS CRITICAL exploited
Actively exploited in the wild (CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities).
Added to KEV 2022-03-03. US federal agencies must patch by 2022-03-24.
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionNone
Confidentiality impactHigh
Integrity impactHigh
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)99%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products we track (2)
Recommendation
This vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild — patch affected products urgently. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/unpatched-flash-player-flaws-more-pocs-found-in-hacking-team-leak/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00015.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00016.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00017.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00018.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1214.htmlAdvisory
- http://twitter.com/w3bd3vil/statuses/618168863708962816
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/561288Advisory