CVE-2016-0974
Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.329 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.306 on Windows and OS X and before…
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- adobe
Description
Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.329 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.306 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.569 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.260, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.260, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.260 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0973, CVE-2016-0975, CVE-2016-0982, CVE-2016-0983, and CVE-2016-0984.
Public exploit
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Adobe Flash - LoadVars.decode Use-After-Free (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 39463dos, multiplepublished 17 Feb 2016Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 39463 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
ID reserved
By adobe
- 50 days later
· 50 days later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 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 | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 30.8% · top 1.7% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (9)
- 39463 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:0400 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 1034970 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- GLSA-201603-07 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- RHSA-2016:0166 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0415 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2016:0412 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-04.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- SUSE-SU-2016:0398 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_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-2016-0984 (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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