CVE-2006-3311

Flash Player vulnerability

CVSS

5.1

EPSS

16.6%

EPSS pct

97th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player 8.0.24.0 and earlier, Flash Professional 8, Flash MX 2004, and Flex 1.5 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long, dynamically created string in a SWF movie.

Affected vendor

Adobe

Affected product

Flash Player

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2006-09-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, high attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 16.6% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Adobe Flash Player is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
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