CVE-2015-0311
Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player through 13.0.0.262 and 14.x, 15.x, and 16.x through 16.0.0.287 on Windows and OS X and…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 85.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.3% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 13 Apr 2022
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player through 13.0.0.262 and 14.x, 15.x, and 16.x through 16.0.0.287 on Windows and OS X and through 11.2.202.438 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in January 2015.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Adobe Flash Player Remote Code Execution Vulnerability.
- Added
- 13 Apr 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 4 May 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
ENISA's EU Vulnerability Database lists it as exploited, from CISA's KEV, since 13 Apr 2022.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and an Exploit-DB entry for it. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits2
Metasploit modules1 module
- Adobe Flash Player ByteArray UncompressViaZlibVariant Use After Free (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/browser/adobe_flash_uncompress_zlib_uafRank greatdisclosed 28 Apr 2014
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Adobe Flash Player - ByteArray UncompressViaZlibVariant Use-After-Free (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36360remote, windowspublished 12 Mar 2015Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By adobe
- 53 days later
· 53 days later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 85.6% · top 0.3% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References16
- GLSA-201502-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 62660 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 62740 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 62432 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 62650 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:0163 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 72283 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 62543 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/2755801 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-03.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:0151 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-01.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1031597 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://malware.dontneedcoffee.com/2015/01/unpatched-vulnerability-0day-in-flash.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2015-0311 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
- https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/196 (opens in a new tab)issue-tracking
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- CISA KEV catalog (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-0324 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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