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critical 9.3

CVE-2015-7659 json

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.261 and 19.x before 19.0.0.245 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.548 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 19.0…

published 2015-11-11 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-7562

cvss
9.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.2%
EPSS 6.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.261 and 19.x before 19.0.0.245 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.548 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 19.0.0.241, Adobe AIR SDK before 19.0.0.241, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 19.0.0.241 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging an unspecified "type confusion" in the NetConnection object implementation.

Patch / fix

  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 11.2.202.548ubuntu0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7659

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 11.2.202.548-1.el5
  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 11.2.202.548-1.el6_7

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:2024RHSA-2015:2023

  • flash-player SLED 12, SLE Workstation Extension 12 11.2.202.548-111.1
  • flash-player SLED 11 SP4, SLED 11 SP3 11.2.202.548-0.26.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:1958-1SUSE-SU-2015:1960-1

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-2015-7659 updated cvss 6.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB15-28

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.548-1.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:2024
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.548-1.el6_7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:2023
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.548-1.el5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:2024
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.548-1.el6_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.548-1.el6_7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:2023

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

Exploit prediction

6.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.