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high 8.8

CVE-2016-7859 json

Adobe Flash Player versions 23.0.0.205 and earlier, 11.2.202.643 and earlier have an exploitable use-after-free vulnerability.

published 2016-11-08 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-8708

cvss
8.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.0%
EPSS 7.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Adobe Flash Player versions 23.0.0.205 and earlier, 11.2.202.643 and earlier have an exploitable use-after-free vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Patch / fix

  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 11.2.202.644ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 11.2.202.644ubuntu0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7859

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 11.2.202.644-1.el5_11
  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 11.2.202.644-1.el6_8

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:2676

  • flash-player SLED 12 SP1, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP1 11.2.202.644-149.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:2778-1

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-2016-7859 updated cvss 8.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-37

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.644-1.el5_11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.644-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.644-1.el5_11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.644-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.644-1.el6_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2676

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

7.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 8.8 CVSS:3.0/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

Affected products

  • n/a Adobe Flash Player 23.0.0.205 and earlier, 11.2.202.643 and earlier

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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