CVE-2015-4430· NVD / CVE Program· CNA adobe

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.302 and 14.x through 18.x before 18.0.0.203 on Windows and OS X and before

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Plan (action score 50/100)

Public proof-of-concept code exists (Exploit-DB); there is no record of exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 32.7% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 98.3% of all records.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.

Add it to your regular patch cycle. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.302 and 14.x through 18.x before 18.0.0.203 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.481 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 18.0.0.180, Adobe AIR SDK before 18.0.0.180, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 18.0.0.180 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-3118, CVE-2015-3124, CVE-2015-3127, CVE-2015-3128, CVE-2015-3129, CVE-2015-3131, CVE-2015-3132, CVE-2015-3136, CVE-2015-3137, CVE-2015-4428, and CVE-2015-5117.

CriticalCVSS 10.0 · v2.0—Proof of concept No fix recorded

pre-auth RCE

Published: Jul 9, 2015
Updated: Jun 16, 2026
EPSS: 32.7% · 98th percentile
CWE: —

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Plan

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CVSS: 40 / 40 · 10.0 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 10 / 30 · 32.7%

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
adobe	air	cpe:2.3:a:adobe:air
adobe	air sdk	cpe:2.3:a:adobe:air_sdk
adobe	air sdk \& compiler	cpe:2.3:a:adobe:air_sdk_\&_compiler
adobe	flash player	cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player
apple	mac os x	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x
microsoft	windows	cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows
linux	linux kernel	cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

adobe airup to 18.0.0.144 inclusive
adobe air sdkup to 18.0.0.144 inclusive
adobe air sdk & compilerup to 18.0.0.144 inclusive
adobe flash playerup to 11.2.202.468 inclusive
adobe flash playerup to 13.0.0.289 inclusive
adobe flash player14.0.0.125
adobe flash player14.0.0.145
adobe flash player14.0.0.176
adobe flash player14.0.0.179
adobe flash player15.0.0.152
adobe flash player15.0.0.167
adobe flash player15.0.0.189
adobe flash player15.0.0.223
adobe flash player15.0.0.239
adobe flash player15.0.0.246
adobe flash player16.0.0.235
adobe flash player16.0.0.257
adobe flash player16.0.0.287
adobe flash player16.0.0.296
adobe flash player17.0.0.134

Same product

adobe: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

CVE-2010-1297Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.277.0 and 10.x before 10.1.53.64; Adobe AIR before 2.0.2.12610; and Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.x before 9.3.3,KEV
86Now
CVE-2015-3087Integer overflow in Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.289 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.188 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.460
62This week
CVE-2007-6019Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0 and earlier, and 8.0.39.0 and earlier, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an SWF file with a
55Plan
CVE-2015-5563Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.232 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.508 on Linux, Adobe AIR before
54Plan
CVE-2015-3093Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.289 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.188 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.460 on Linux, Adobe AIR
54Plan
CVE-2015-3089Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.289 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.188 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.460 on Linux, Adobe AIR
54Plan

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

Proof of concept available

A public proof of concept or detection signature exists. Exploit knowledge is out there; don't delay patching.

Evidence

Exploit-DB entry ×1

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Public exploit evidence
Source	Kind	Date
Exploit-DB entry	dos	2015-08-19

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

PublishedJul 9, 2015
First PoCAug 19, 2015+40 d
TodayOct 18, 2026+4119 d

EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

—

Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: C · data can be read
Integrity: C · data or configuration can be modified
Availability: C · the service can be disrupted

Attack complexity: Low
Confidentiality impact: C
Integrity impact: C
Availability impact: C

Weakness class (CWE)

—

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

No changes recorded on tracked fields yet. Score, KEV, exploit maturity and fix status changes appear here.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00017.html

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