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CVE-2015-3043: Adobe Flash Player Memory Corruption Vulnerability
CVE-2015-3043 is rated critical with a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 and affects Adobe Flash Player, along with 10 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 2022-03-03, which means exploitation in the wild has been observed.
Vulnerability description
Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.281 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.169 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.457 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2015, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-0347, CVE-2015-0350, CVE-2015-0352, CVE-2015-0353, CVE-2015-0354, CVE-2015-0355, CVE-2015-0360, CVE-2015-3038, CVE-2015-3041, and CVE-2015-3042.
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-787: Out-of-bounds Write
The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.
Affected products
- Adobe Flash Player: before 11.2.202.457; before 13.0.0.281; from 14.0.0.125 before 17.0.0.169
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop: 11.0 sp3; 12.0
- Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Workstation Extension: 12.0
- Opensuse Evergreen: 11.4
- Opensuse: 13.1; 13.2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 5.0; 6.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: 6.6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: 5.0; 6.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 6.6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server From Rhui: 5.0; 6.0
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 5.0; 6.0
References
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-06.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00010.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00011.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00012.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00013.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0813.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74062
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032105
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-07
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37536/
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2015-3043
- https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/196