CVE-2015-3043
Published 2015-04-14 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source psirt@adobe.com
Summary
CVE-2015-3043 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 3, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by March 24, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Adobe has 83 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 11 of them linked to ransomware.
All 83 known-exploited Adobe vulnerabilities →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.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Adobe — Flash Player
Name: Adobe Flash Player Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Date added: 2022-03-03 · Due: 2022-03-24
Required action: The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
References
- 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://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-06.html

