CVE-2015-5119: Adobe Flash Player Use-After-Free Vulnerability
In CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: Adobe Flash Player Use-After-Free Vulnerability.
Added , federal remediation due . Known ransomware use: Unknown.
Required action: The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
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.
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Status incidents that name it
No tracked status incident names this CVE.
Affected vendors and products
Adobe: Flash Player
References
- CVE record on cve.org (opens in new tab)
- NVD entry (opens in new tab)
- blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/unpatched-flash-player-flaws-more-poc… (opens in new tab)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00015.html (opens in new tab)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00016.html (opens in new tab)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00017.html (opens in new tab)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00018.html (opens in new tab)
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1214.html (opens in new tab)
- helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-03.html (opens in new tab)
- helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-16.html (opens in new tab)
- packetstormsecurity.com/files/132600/Adobe-Flash-Player-ByteArray-Use-After-Free.html (opens in new tab)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-13 (opens in new tab)
- twitter.com/w3bd3vil/statuses/618168863708962816 (opens in new tab)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/561288 (opens in new tab)
- www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/browser/adobe_flash_hacking_team_uaf (opens in new tab)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/75568 (opens in new tab)
- www.securitytracker.com/id/1032809 (opens in new tab)
- www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA15-195A (opens in new tab)
- CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (opens in new tab)
- This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (opens in new tab)
- Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (opens in new tab)
- EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (opens in new tab)