CVE-2016-0984
Adobe Flash Player and AIR: Use-After-Free
As of , CVE-2016-0984 in Adobe Flash Player and AIR 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 25 May 2022
- US federal deadline
- 15 June 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
- 0.55Higher than 98% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS when listed
- 0.85 on 25 May 2022EPSS on the day CISA listed it.
- Public exploit
- 1 Exploit-DB entry (1 verified)
- Fix
- No vendor link in CISA's entry
What CISA says to do
The impacted products are end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
CISA's required action
What the flaw is
Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR allows attackers to execute code.
CISA's description
Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.329 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.306 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.569 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.260, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.260, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.260 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0973, CVE-2016-0974, CVE-2016-0975, CVE-2016-0982, and CVE-2016-0983.
The CVE record's description, from adobe
- CVE published
- 10 February 2016
- Assigned by
- adobe
- CVSS
- 8.8 High (CVSS 3.1, from CISA-ADP)
- CWE-416
- Use After Free
- 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 39462).
- 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.
- Exploit-DB: Adobe Flash - Sound.loadPCMFromByteArray Dangling PointerEDB-ID 39462, verified by Exploit-DB, 17 February 2016
Flash Player and AIR: other exploited entries
| Vulnerability | Product | Our group | Listed | Deadline | EPSS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2016-1010Integer Overflow | Adobe Flash Player and AIR | Patch soon | 0.19 |
Read further
- CVE recordcve.org
- NVD entrynvd.nist.gov
- CISA's catalogcisa.gov
- EPSS for this CVEapi.first.org