THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-4248
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2016-4248

Flash Player Desktop Runtime vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
6.7%
EPSS pct
93th
Exploited
No known
Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.366 and 19.x through 22.x before 22.0.0.209 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.632 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4173, CVE-2016-4174, CVE-2016-4222, CVE-2016-4226, CVE-2016-4227, CVE-2016-4228, CVE-2016-4229, CVE-2016-4230, and CVE-2016-4231.
Affected vendor
Adobe
Affected product
Flash Player Desktop Runtime
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
2016-07-13

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 6.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-4248

  • Confirm whether Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2016-4248.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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