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CVE-2015-3043

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.281 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.169 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.457 on Linux allows…

Description

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.281 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.169 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.457 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2015, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-0347, CVE-2015-0350, CVE-2015-0352, CVE-2015-0353, CVE-2015-0354, CVE-2015-0355, CVE-2015-0360, CVE-2015-3038, CVE-2015-3041, and CVE-2015-3042.

Exploited in the wild

CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Adobe Flash Player Memory Corruption Vulnerability.

Added
3 Mar 2022
Fix due (US federal)
24 Mar 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 3 Mar 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. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.

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Metasploit modules1 module

Exploit-DB1 entry

References tagged exploit1 reference

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

  1. ID reserved

    By adobe

  2. · 5 days later

    Published

  3. · 7 years later

    Added to CISA KEV

    Known exploited in the wild

  4. · 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

CVSS scores of CVE-2015-3043, by who scored it
Scored byCVSSScoreVector
CISA-ADPADP (enrichment)3.1High7.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVDNVD · Analyzed3.1Critical9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
73.9% · top 0.5% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
CISA SSVC
Exploitation: active · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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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

12

Sources

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