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high 8.8

CVE-2016-7880 json

Adobe Flash Player versions 23.0.0.207 and earlier, 11.2.202.644 and earlier have an exploitable use after free vulnerability when setting…

published 2016-12-15 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-8729

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.0%
EPSS 6.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Adobe Flash Player versions 23.0.0.207 and earlier, 11.2.202.644 and earlier have an exploitable use after free vulnerability when setting the length property of an array object. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Patch / fix

  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 24.0.0.186-1.el6_8

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:2947

  • flash-player SLED 12 SP1, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP1 24.0.0.186-152.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:3148-1

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-2016-7880 updated cvss 8.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-39

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 flash-plugin
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 24.0.0.186-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 24.0.0.186-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 24.0.0.186-1.el6_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2947

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

6.03% 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 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

Affected products

  • n/a Adobe Flash Player 23.0.0.207 and earlier, 11.2.202.644 and earlier

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.