CVE-2015-5568: adobe air Improper Input Validation
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2015-5568 is a high (CVSS 10.0) Improper Input Validation vulnerability in adobe air. EPSS estimates a 19.87% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 4 · Related 2Timeline
- 22-09-2015PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.241 and 19.x before 19.0.0.185 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.521 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 19.0.0.190, Adobe AIR SDK before 19.0.0.190, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 19.0.0.190 allow attackers to cause a denial of service (vector-length corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via unknown vectors.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
19.87%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
97%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 19.87% on 21-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
1 foundAdobe Flash - 'uint' Capacity Field
Maturity: poc
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Adobe4 products
- air≤ 18.0.0.199 | ≤ 18.0.0.143
- air_sdk≤ 18.0.0.199
- air_sdk_\&_compiler≤ 18.0.0.180
- flash_player≤ 11.2.202.508 | ≤ 13.0.0.289 | 14.0.0.125 | 14.0.0.145 | 14.0.0.176 | 14.0.0.179 | 15.0.0.152 | 15.0.0.167 | 15.0.0.189 | 15.0.0.223 | 15.0.0.239 | 15.0.0.246 | 16.0.0.235 | 16.0.0.257 | 16.0.0.287 | 16.0.0.296 | 17.0.0.134 | 17.0.0.169 | 17.0.0.188 | 17.0.0.190 | 17.0.0.191 | 18.0.0.160 | 18.0.0.194 | 18.0.0.203 | 18.0.0.209 | 18.0.0.232
Ubuntu1 product
- flashplugin-nonfree< 11.2.202.521ubuntu0.14.04.1
2 vendors · 5 products
References
17 links- helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-23.htmlX Refsource CONFIRMPatchVendor AdvisoryREPORT
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- code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=504X Refsource MISC