CVE-2015-8456: adobe air
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2015-8456 is a high (CVSS 9.3) vulnerability in adobe air. EPSS estimates a 5.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.7% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1Timeline
- 10-12-2015PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 06-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.268 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.228 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.554 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.204, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.204, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.204 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging an unspecified "type confusion," a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8439.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
5.51%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
93%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
0.00 pp
From 5.51% on 19-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Adobe4 products
- air≤ 19.0.0.241
- air_sdk≤ 19.0.0.241
- air_sdk_\&_compiler≤ 19.0.0.241
- flash_player≤ 18.0.0.261 | 19.0.0.185 | 19.0.0.207 | 19.0.0.226 | 19.0.0.245 | ≤ 11.2.202.548
Ubuntu1 product
- flashplugin-nonfree< 11.2.202.554ubuntu0.14.04.1
2 vendors · 5 products
References
8 links- helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-32.htmlX Refsource CONFIRMPatchVendor AdvisoryREPORT