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CVE-2015-3083 json

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.289 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.188 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.460 on Linux, Adobe AI…

published 2015-05-13 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-3164

cvss
6.4
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
41.1%
EPSS 41.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.289 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.188 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.460 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 17.0.0.172, Adobe AIR SDK before 17.0.0.172, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 17.0.0.172 allow remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions on filesystem write operations via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-3082 and CVE-2015-3085.

Patch / fix

  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 11.2.202.460ubuntu0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3083

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 11.2.202.460-1.el5
  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 11.2.202.460-1.el6_6

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:1005

  • flash-player SLED 12, SLE Workstation Extension 12 11.2.202.460-83.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:0878-1

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-2015-3083 updated cvss 6.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB15-09

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.460-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.460-1.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.460-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.460-1.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.460-1.el6_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1005

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. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-37841)

Exploit prediction

41.06% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-37841 Flash Broker-Based - Sandbox Escape via Unexpected Directory Lock remote, 2015-08-19

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

Fencer Intel keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.