THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2015-8043
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2015-8043

Air vulnerability

CVSS
10.0
EPSS
29.4%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.261 and 19.x before 19.0.0.245 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.548 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 19.0.0.241, Adobe AIR SDK before 19.0.0.241, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 19.0.0.241 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-7651, CVE-2015-7652, CVE-2015-7653, CVE-2015-7654, CVE-2015-7655, CVE-2015-7656, CVE-2015-7657, CVE-2015-7658, CVE-2015-7660, CVE-2015-7661, CVE-2015-7663, CVE-2015-8042, CVE-2015-8044, and CVE-2015-8046.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Air
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Published
2015-11-11

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 29.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 98% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2015-8043

  • Confirm whether Adobe Air is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-8043.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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