CVE-2006-6827

Flash Player vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

3.3%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

Flash8b.ocx in Macromedia Flash 8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (Internet Explorer 7 crash) via a long string in the Flash8b.AllowScriptAccess method.

Affected vendor

Macromedia

Affected product

Flash Player

CVSS vector

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

Published

2006-12-31

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Macromedia Flash Player is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2006-6827.
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