Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.375 and 19.x through 23.x before 23.0.0.162 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.635 on Linux allows…

Description

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.375 and 19.x through 23.x before 23.0.0.162 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.635 on Linux allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4277 and CVE-2016-4278, aka a "local-with-filesystem Flash sandbox bypass" issue.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.6% · top 8.4% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (6)

• GLSA-201610-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• http://lab.truel.it/flash-sandbox-bypass/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://blog.bjornweb.nl/2017/02/flash-bypassing-local-sandbox-data-exfiltration-credentials-leak/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-29.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• RHSA-2016:1865 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
• 1036791 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2016-4271](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2016-4271.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2016-4271)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 00:25 UTC.