THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-1000
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2016-1000

Flash Player vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
29.8%
EPSS pct
98th
Exploited
No known
Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.333 and 19.x through 21.x before 21.0.0.182 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.577 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 21.0.0.176, Adobe AIR SDK before 21.0.0.176, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 21.0.0.176 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0987, CVE-2016-0988, CVE-2016-0990, CVE-2016-0991, CVE-2016-0994, CVE-2016-0995, CVE-2016-0996, CVE-2016-0997, CVE-2016-0998, and CVE-2016-0999.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Flash Player
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
Published
2016-03-12

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 29.8% 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-2016-1000

  • Confirm whether Adobe Flash Player is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-1000.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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