CVE-2015-3043
Adobe Flash Player: Memory Corruption
As of , CVE-2015-3043 in Adobe Flash Player is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch this week.
- Exploited
- Yes: CISA listed it on 3 March 2022
- US federal deadline
- 24 March 202221 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
- Used in ransomware campaigns
- Not known to CISA
- EPSS score
- 0.74Higher than 99% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS when listed
- 0.04 on 3 March 2022EPSS on the day CISA listed it.
- Public exploit
- 1 Metasploit module and 1 Exploit-DB entry (1 verified)
- Fix
- No vendor link in CISA's entry
What CISA says to do
The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
CISA's required action
What the flaw is
A memory corruption vulnerability exists in Adobe Flash Player that allows an attacker to perform remote code execution.
CISA's 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.
The CVE record's description, from adobe
- CVE published
- 14 April 2015
- Assigned by
- adobe
- CVSS
- 7.8 High (CVSS 3.1, from CISA-ADP)
- CWE-787
- Out-of-bounds Write
- CISA SSVC, exploitation
- active
- CISA SSVC, automatable
- no
- CISA SSVC, technical impact
- total
Timeline
- The CVE record was published.
- Exploit-DB published an exploit (EDB-ID 37536).
- CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
- The US federal deadline to fix it.
Public exploits
Facts from Metasploit's module list and Exploit-DB's index; we never copy exploit code.
- Metasploit: Adobe Flash Player Nellymoser Audio Decoding Buffer Overflowexploit module, rank great
- Exploit-DB: Adobe Flash Player - Nellymoser Audio Decoding Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)EDB-ID 37536, verified by Exploit-DB, 8 July 2015
Flash Player: other exploited entries
| Vulnerability | Product | Our group | Listed | Deadline | EPSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2014-0497Integer Underflow Vulnerablity | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.99; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.99 | ||
| CVE-2010-1297Memory Corruption | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.83; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.83 | ||
| CVE-2011-0609Unspecified | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.64; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.64 | ||
| CVE-2012-0754Memory Corruption | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.91; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.91 | ||
| CVE-2015-0311Remote Code Execution | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.86; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.86 | ||
| CVE-2015-0313Use-After-Free | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.95; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.95 | ||
| CVE-2015-3113Heap-Based Buffer Overflow | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.99; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.99 | ||
| CVE-2015-5122Use-After-Free | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.94; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.94 | ||
| CVE-2011-0611Remote Code Execution | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.99; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.99 | ||
| CVE-2012-1535Arbitrary Code Execution | Adobe Flash Player | Patch this weekMetasploit module; EPSS 0.70; verified Exploit-DB entry | 0.70 |
Read further
- CVE recordcve.org
- NVD entrynvd.nist.gov
- CISA's catalogcisa.gov
- EPSS for this CVEapi.first.org