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CVE-2015-0311 kev in the critical feed json

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player through 13.0.0.262 and 14.x, 15.x, and 16.x through 16.0.0.287 on Windows and OS X and thro…

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-0324

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Exploited
added 2022-04-13
epss
85.6%
EPSS 85.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.7%
public exploits
2
Metasploit and Exploit-DB

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player through 13.0.0.262 and 14.x, 15.x, and 16.x through 16.0.0.287 on Windows and OS X and through 11.2.202.438 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in January 2015.

Patch / fix

cisa required action The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

  • adobe flash_player 16.0.0.287
  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 11.2.202.429ubuntu0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-0311

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • flash-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 11.2.202.440-1.el5
  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 11.2.202.440-1.el6

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:0094

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-0311 updated cvss 6.8

flash-plugin: multiple critical vulnerabilities (APSA15-01)(APSB15-03)

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.440-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.440-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.440-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.440-1.el6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.440-1.el6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:0094

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/multi/browser/adobe_flash_uncompress_zlib_uaf)
  2. Found exploited as a 0-day (Project Zero)
  3. Published
  4. 0-day patched (Project Zero)
  5. Added to CISA KEV
  6. CISA patch deadline
  7. CISA SSVC: exploitation active

Known exploited

Added
4y ago
Patch by
2022-05-04 (4y ago)
Ransomware
Not known
Required action
The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
Vendor, product
Adobe, Flash Player
CISA name
Adobe Flash Player Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Zero-day

Detected in real attacks while still unknown to the vendor and the public, per Google Project Zero's 0day In-the-Wild tracker.

Found
2015-01-20
Patched
2015-01-27
Details
project zero tracker

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Active, exploited in the wild
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
11mo ago

Exploit prediction

85.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.7% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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