VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2018-4878

unknown KEV
Published 2021-11-03 · Modified 2021-11-03
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
2.5

Description

Adobe Flash Player contains a use-after-free vulnerability that could allow for code execution.

CISA KEV

Vendor
Adobe
Product
Flash Player
Due date
2022-05-03

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
99%
Patch ETA
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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-44744 local windows
smgorelik · 2016-02-16

Flash ActiveX 28.0.0.137 - Code Execution (1)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-44745 local windows
smgorelik · 2016-02-13

Flash ActiveX 28.0.0.137 - Code Execution (2)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
EDB-44412 remote multiple
SyFi · 2018-04-06

Adobe Flash < 28.0.0.161 - Use-After-Free

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

References

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

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