VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-5566

critical
Published 2015-08-24 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Use-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 18.0.0.199, Adobe AIR SDK before 18.0.0.199, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 18.0.0.199 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-5127, CVE-2015-5130, CVE-2015-5134, CVE-2015-5539, CVE-2015-5540, CVE-2015-5550, CVE-2015-5551, CVE-2015-5556, CVE-2015-5557, CVE-2015-5559, CVE-2015-5561, CVE-2015-5563, CVE-2015-5564, and CVE-2015-5565.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: psirt@adobe.com — https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-19.html

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

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobeair{"endIncluding":"18.0.0.180"}
adobeair_sdk{"endIncluding":"18.0.0.180"}
adobeair_sdk_\&_compiler{"endIncluding":"18.0.0.180"}
adobeflash_player{"endIncluding":"11.2.202.491"}

References

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