THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2016-7867
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2016-7867

Flash Player Desktop Runtime vulnerability

CVSS
8.8
EPSS
10.7%
EPSS pct
95th
Exploited
No known
Adobe Flash Player versions 23.0.0.207 and earlier, 11.2.202.644 and earlier have an exploitable buffer overflow / underflow vulnerability in the RegExp class related to bookmarking in searches. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.
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
2016-12-15

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 10.7% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2016-7867

  • 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-2016-7867.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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