CVE-2015-5119
Use-after-free vulnerability in the ByteArray class in the ActionScript 3 (AS3) implementation in Adobe Flash Player 13.x through…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 98.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.1% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 3 Mar 2022
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in the ByteArray class in the ActionScript 3 (AS3) implementation in Adobe Flash Player 13.x through 13.0.0.296 and 14.x through 18.0.0.194 on Windows and OS X and 11.x through 11.2.202.468 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted Flash content that overrides a valueOf function, as exploited in the wild in July 2015.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Adobe Flash Player Use-After-Free 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. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
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Metasploit modules1 module
- Adobe Flash Player ByteArray Use After Free (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/multi/browser/adobe_flash_hacking_team_uafRank greatdisclosed 6 Jul 2015
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Adobe Flash Player - ByteArray Use-After-Free (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 37523remote, multiplepublished 8 Jul 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
- 12 days later
· 12 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)
- 98.6% · top 0.1% 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
18
- 1032809 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 75568 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:1207 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- TA15-195A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:1211 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:1214 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2015:1214 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- GLSA-201507-13 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/browser/adobe_flash_hacking_team_uaf (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-03.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- VU#561288 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-16.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132600/Adobe-Flash-Player-ByteArray-Use-After-Free.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:1210 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/unpatched-flash-player-flaws-more-pocs-found-in-hacking-team-leak/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://twitter.com/w3bd3vil/statuses/618168863708962816 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2015-5119 (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-2015-5134 (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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