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CVE-2016-6981
Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.382 and 19.x through 23.x before 23.0.0.185 on Windows and OS X and…
High8.8EPSS 5.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- adobe
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.382 and 19.x through 23.x before 23.0.0.185 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.637 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-6987.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.4% · top 7.3% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- GLSA-201610-10 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-32.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 93492 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:2057 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 1036985 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
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- 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)
Record last updated .