CVE-2015-5119
Published 2015-07-08 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source psirt@adobe.com
Summary
CVE-2015-5119 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
Use-after-free vulnerability in the ByteArray class in the ActionScript 3 (AS3) implementation in Adobe Flash Player 13.x through 13.0.0.296 and 14.x through 18.0.0.194 on Windows and OS X and 11.x through 11.2.202.468 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted Flash content that overrides a valueOf function, as exploited in the wild in July 2015.
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 Use-After-Free 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://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/unpatched-flash-player-flaws-more-pocs-found-in-hacking-team-leak/
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00018.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1214.html
- http://twitter.com/w3bd3vil/statuses/618168863708962816
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/561288