Adobe Flash Player Use-After-Free Vulnerability

[ Why it matters ]Priority signals

• Exploited in the wild: on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list since 2022-04-13
• EPSS: 95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (higher than 100% of CVEs)
• Critical severity: CVSS 9.8

[ Description ]Official description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.269 and 14.x through 16.x before 16.0.0.305 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.442 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in February 2015, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-0315, CVE-2015-0320, and CVE-2015-0322.

CISA: Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player allows remote attackers to execute code.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

CISA required action (US federal deadline 4 May 2022): The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

• Patch on technet.microsoft.comVendor patch or bulletin · NVD · Reference tagged 'Patch' by NVD

[ References ]References

• lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00006.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
• lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00007.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
• lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00008.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
• lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00009.htmlMailing ListThird Party Advisory
• packetstormsecurity.com/files/131189/Adobe-Flash-Player-ByteArray-With-Workers-Use-Afte…ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
• secunia.com/advisories/62528Broken Link
• secunia.com/advisories/62777Broken Link
• secunia.com/advisories/62895Broken Link
• www.osvdb.org/117853Broken Link
• www.securityfocus.com/bid/72429Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
• www.securitytracker.com/id/1031686Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
• exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100641Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
• helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-02.htmlVendor Advisory
• helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-04.htmlBroken Link
• technet.microsoft.com/library/security/2755801PatchVendor Advisory
• www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36579ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
• github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/196Issue Tracking
• www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalogUS Government Resource