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CVE-2015-0313: Adobe Flash Player Use-After-Free Vulnerability
CVE-2015-0313 is rated critical with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 and affects Adobe Flash Player, along with 6 other products in NVD’s configuration data. Per its scoring, it can be exploited over the network, without authentication, without any user interaction. The scored impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability is the highest available. CISA added it to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-04-13, which means exploitation in the wild has been observed.
Vulnerability description
Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.269 and 14.x through 16.x before 16.0.0.305 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.442 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in February 2015, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-0315, CVE-2015-0320, and CVE-2015-0322.
Severity breakdown
CVSS v3.1 9.8: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack vector: Network. Exploitable remotely over the network, with no need for local or physical access.
- Attack complexity: Low. No special conditions; the attack can be repeated reliably.
- Privileges required: None. No account or prior access is needed.
- User interaction: None. No action from any user is needed.
- Scope: Unchanged. Impact stays within the vulnerable component.
- Confidentiality impact: High. Total loss of confidentiality; sensitive data can be fully disclosed.
- Integrity impact: High. Total loss of integrity; data or system state can be fully modified.
- Availability impact: High. Total loss of availability; the component can be shut down.
Underlying weakness
CWE-416: Use After Free
The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory belongs to the code that operates on the new pointer.
Affected products
- Adobe Flash Player: before 11.2.202.442; before 13.0.0.269; from 14.0.0.125 before 16.0.0.305
- Opensuse Evergreen: 11.4
- Opensuse: 13.1; 13.2
- Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 11 sp3; 12
- Suse Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension: 12
- Microsoft Internet Explorer: 10; 11
- Microsoft Edge: all versions listed by NVD
References
- https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/2755801
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-02.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00006.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00007.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-02/msg00009.html
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/131189/Adobe-Flash-Player-ByteArray-With-Workers-Use-After-Free.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72429
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031686
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/100641
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/36579/
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2015-0313
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62528
- http://secunia.com/advisories/62777