CVE-2016-4231

high-risk

Published 2016-07-13

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.366 and 19.x through 22.x before 22.0.0.209 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.632 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4173, CVE-2016-4174, CVE-2016-4222, CVE-2016-4226, CVE-2016-4227, CVE-2016-4228, CVE-2016-4229, CVE-2016-4230, and CVE-2016-4248.

Do I need to act?

67.4% chance of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS score — higher than 33% of all CVEs

Not on CISA KEV list

No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA

1 public exploit available

40356

Patch status unknown

Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance

CVSS 8.8/10 High

NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (6)

Flash Player Desktop Runtime

Flash Player

Affected Vendors

Adobe

References (18)

Broken Link http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00016.html

Broken Link http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-07/msg00017.html

Third Party Advisory http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91719

Broken Link http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036280

Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1423

Patch https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/security-updates/securitybulletins/2016/ms16-09...

Patch https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-25.html

Third Party Advisory https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-03

Exploit https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40356/