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CVE-2015-8651 kev in the critical feed json

Integer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.324 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.267 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.559 on…

published 10y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-8528

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Exploited
added 2022-05-25
epss
67.7%
EPSS 67.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.3%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Integer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.324 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.267 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.559 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.233, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.233, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.233 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Patch / fix

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

  • adobe air_sdk 20.0.0.233
  • adobe air_sdk_&_compiler 20.0.0.233
  • adobe flash_player 11.2.202.559, 18.0.0.324, 20.0.0.267
  • adobe air 20.0.0.233
  • hp insight_control 7.6
  • hp insight_control_server_provisioning 7.6
  • hp system_management_homepage 7.6
  • hp systems_insight_manager 7.6
  • hp version_control_repository_manager 7.6
  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 11.2.202.559ubuntu0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8651

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 11.2.202.559-1.el5
  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 11.2.202.559-1.el6_7

red hat advisories RHSA-2015:2697

  • flash-player SLED 11 SP4, SLED 11 SP3 11.2.202.559-0.32.1
  • flash-player SLED 12 SP1, SLED 12, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP1 +1 more 11.2.202.559-117.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2015:2402-1SUSE-SU-2015:2401-1

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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-2015-8651 updated cvss 6.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-01

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.559-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.559-1.el6_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.559-1.el5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.559-1.el6_7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.559-1.el6_7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2015:2697

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. Published
  3. Added to CISA KEV
  4. CISA patch deadline
  5. CISA SSVC: exploitation active

Known exploited

Added
4y ago
Patch by
2022-06-15 (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 Integer 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
2015-12-28
Details
project zero tracker

ATT&CK techniques

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

  • T1189 Drive-by Compromise exploitation
  • T1105 Ingress Tool Transfer primary impact
  • T1486 Data Encrypted for Impact secondary impact

kev release 2025-07-28, att&ck v16.1. KEV to ATT&CK mappings by the MITRE Center for Threat-Informed Defense (Mappings Explorer, Apache-2.0). © 2026 The MITRE Corporation. This work is reproduced and distributed with the permission of The MITRE Corporation. Terms of use

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Active, exploited in the wild
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
last yr.

Exploit prediction

67.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

Sources

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