CVE-2015-7647
Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.255 and 19.x before 19.0.0.226 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.540 on Linux allows attackers to…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 29.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.255 and 19.x before 19.0.0.226 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.540 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging an unspecified "type confusion," a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-7648.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Adobe Flash - Type Confusion in IExternalizable.readExternal When Performing Local Serialization (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 38969dos, multiplepublished 14 Dec 2015Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 38969 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By adobe
- 17 days later
· 17 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 29.5% · top 1.8% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- RHSA-2015:1913 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 38969 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:2024 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 77115 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1033850 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-27.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201511-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
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)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-7550 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2015-7647)Record last updated .