VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8635

high
Published 2015-12-28 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.324 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.267 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.559 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.233, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.233, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.233 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8634, CVE-2015-8638, CVE-2015-8639, CVE-2015-8640, CVE-2015-8641, CVE-2015-8642, CVE-2015-8643, CVE-2015-8646, CVE-2015-8647, CVE-2015-8648, CVE-2015-8649, and CVE-2015-8650.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-39220 dos windows verified
Google Security Research · 2016-01-11

Adobe Flash (Multiple Scripts) - Use-After-Free When Rendering Displays (1)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

OS impact
linux Linux kernel Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Not affected —
macos macOS Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobeflash_player{"endIncluding":"11.2.202.554"}
adobe adobeair{"endIncluding":"20.0.0.204"}
adobe adobeair_sdk{"endIncluding":"20.0.0.204"}
adobe adobeair_sdk_\&_compiler{"endIncluding":"20.0.0.204"}
adobe adobeflash_player19.0.0.185
adobe adobeflash_player19.0.0.207
adobe adobeflash_player19.0.0.226
adobe adobeflash_player19.0.0.245
adobe adobeflash_player20.0.0.228
adobe adobeflash_player20.0.0.235

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.