CVE-2015-5119

critical-risk
Published 2015-07-08

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.

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93.2% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — higher than 7% of all CVEs
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CISA KEV: actively exploited in the wild
On the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — federal agencies must patch
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1 public exploit available
37523
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 9.8/10 Critical
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (18)

Affected Vendors

Redhat Opensuse Suse Adobe

References (34)

Broken Link http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/unpatched-flash-playe...
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00015.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00016.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00017.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00018.html
Third Party Advisory http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1214.html
Broken Link http://twitter.com/w3bd3vil/statuses/618168863708962816
Third Party Advisory http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/561288
Third Party Advisory http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/browser/adobe_flash_hacking_team_...
Broken Link http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75568
Broken Link http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032809
Third Party Advisory http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA15-195A
Broken Link https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-03.html
Broken Link https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-16.html
Exploit https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132600/Adobe-Flash-Player-ByteArray-Use-Af...
Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-13
Broken Link http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/unpatched-flash-playe...
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00015.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00016.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00017.html
and 14 more references
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critical-risk
Severity 32/34 · Critical
Exploitability 34/34 · Critical
Exposure 19/34 · Moderate