CVE-2016-0984
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…
- 8.8HighCVSS base score
- 54.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 1.0% of all CVEs
- YesKnown exploitedin CISA's KEV since 25 May 2022
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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-2016-0974, CVE-2016-0975, CVE-2016-0982, and CVE-2016-0983.
Exploited in the wild
CISA lists this vulnerability in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as Adobe Flash Player and AIR Use-After-Free Vulnerability.
- Added
- 25 May 2022
- Fix due (US federal)
- 15 Jun 2022
- Used by ransomware
- Not known
The impacted products are 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 25 May 2022.
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. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: it is being exploited.
Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Adobe Flash - Sound.loadPCMFromByteArray Dangling Pointer (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 39462dos, multiplepublished 17 Feb 2016Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 39462 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
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By adobe
- 50 days later
· 50 days later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Added to CISA KEV
Known exploited in the wild
- 3 years later
· 3 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 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 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)
- 54.5% · top 1.0% of all CVEs (9 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 8.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- 39462 (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
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2016-0984 (opens in a new tab)government-resource
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-2016-0994 (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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