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CVE-2015-3113 kev in the critical feed json

Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.296 and 14.x through 18.x before 18.0.0.194 on Windows and OS X and before 1…

published 2015-06-23 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-3194

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Exploited
added 2022-04-13
epss
99.8%
EPSS 99.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.9%
public exploits
2
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.296 and 14.x through 18.x before 18.0.0.194 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.468 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in June 2015.

Patch / fix

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

  • adobe flash_player 11.2.202.468, 13.0.0.296, 18.0.0.194
  • hp insight_orchestration 7.5.0
  • hp system_management_homepage 7.5.0
  • hp systems_insight_manager 7.5
  • hp version_control_agent 7.5.0
  • hp version_control_repository_manager 7.5.0
  • hp virtual_connect_enterprise_manager 7.5.0
  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 11.2.202.468ubuntu0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3113

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 11.2.202.468-1.el5
  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 11.2.202.468-1.el6_6

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:1184

  • flash-player SLED 12, SLE Workstation Extension 12 11.2.202.468-89.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:1136-1

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-2015-3113 updated cvss 6.8

flash-plugin: code execution issue fixed in APSB15-14

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.468-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.468-1.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.468-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.468-1.el6_6 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.468-1.el6_6
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:1184

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

Known exploited

Added
4 y ago
Patch by
2022-05-04 (4 y 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 Heap-Based Buffer Overflow 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.

Patched
2015-06-23
Details
project zero tracker

ATT&CK techniques

How it is exploited and what it leads to, in MITRE ATT&CK terms.

  • T1204.002 Malicious File exploitation
  • T1071.001 Web Protocols primary impact
  • T1497 Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion secondary impact
  • T1622 Debugger Evasion secondary impact

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CISA SSVC

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

Exploit prediction

99.81% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.9% 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

Classification

Weakness

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.