VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-7861

high
Published 2016-11-08 · 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
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Adobe Flash Player versions 23.0.0.205 and earlier, 11.2.202.643 and earlier have an exploitable type confusion vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

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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OS impact
redhat Red Hat Affected 2 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
6.0 Affected —
5.0 Affected —
linux Linux kernel Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
- Not affected —
macos macOS Fixed 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
- Not affected —
windows Windows Fixed 4 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
r2 Not affected —
1607 Not affected —
1511 Not affected —
- Not affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobeflash_player{"endIncluding":"23.0.0.205"}
adobe adobeflash_player_for_linux{"endIncluding":"11.2.202.643"}

References

CWEs

CWE-704

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

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