VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-5573

critical
Published 2015-09-22 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
—
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.241 and 19.x before 19.0.0.185 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.521 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 19.0.0.190, Adobe AIR SDK before 19.0.0.190, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 19.0.0.190 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging an unspecified "type confusion."

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
—

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/apsb15-23.html

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

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobeflash_player{"endIncluding":"13.0.0.289"}
adobeflash_player14.0.0.125
adobeflash_player14.0.0.145
adobeflash_player14.0.0.176
adobeflash_player14.0.0.179
adobeflash_player15.0.0.152
adobeflash_player15.0.0.167
adobeflash_player15.0.0.189
adobeflash_player15.0.0.223
adobeflash_player15.0.0.239
adobeflash_player15.0.0.246
adobeflash_player16.0.0.235
adobeflash_player16.0.0.257
adobeflash_player16.0.0.287
adobeflash_player16.0.0.296
adobeflash_player17.0.0.134
adobeflash_player17.0.0.169
adobeflash_player17.0.0.188
adobeflash_player17.0.0.190
adobeflash_player17.0.0.191
adobeflash_player18.0.0.160
adobeflash_player18.0.0.194
adobeflash_player18.0.0.203
adobeflash_player18.0.0.209
adobeflash_player18.0.0.232
adobeair{"endIncluding":"18.0.0.199"}
adobeair_sdk{"endIncluding":"18.0.0.199"}
adobeair_sdk_\&_compiler{"endIncluding":"18.0.0.180"}

References

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