CVE-2015-3082

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Published 2015-05-13 ยท Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.4

Description

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 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 17.0.0.172, Adobe AIR SDK before 17.0.0.172, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 17.0.0.172 allow remote attackers to bypass intended restrictions on filesystem write operations via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-3083 and CVE-2015-3085.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
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 โ€” if you've already worked around this in production โ€” 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-37840 remote windows verified
KeenTeam ยท 2015-08-19

Flash Broker-Based - Sandbox Escape via Forward Slash Instead of Backslash

Source code queued for fetch โ€” refresh in a moment.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macos-not-affected
linux linux-kernel-not-affected

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobeair{"endIncluding":"17.0.0.144"}
adobe adobeair_sdk{"endIncluding":"17.0.0.144"}
adobe adobeair_sdk_\&_compiler{"endIncluding":"17.0.0.144"}
adobe adobeflash_player{"endIncluding":"13.0.0.264"}
adobe adobeflash_player14.0.0.125
adobe adobeflash_player14.0.0.145
adobe adobeflash_player14.0.0.176
adobe adobeflash_player14.0.0.179
adobe adobeflash_player15.0.0.152
adobe adobeflash_player15.0.0.167
adobe adobeflash_player15.0.0.189
adobe adobeflash_player15.0.0.223
adobe adobeflash_player15.0.0.239
adobe adobeflash_player15.0.0.246
adobe adobeflash_player16.0.0.235
adobe adobeflash_player16.0.0.257
adobe adobeflash_player16.0.0.287
adobe adobeflash_player16.0.0.296
adobe adobeflash_player17.0.0.134
adobe adobeflash_player17.0.0.169

References

CWEs

CWE-264

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

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