VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8439

critical
Published 2015-12-10 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
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VIR risk
9.3

Description

The SharedObject object implementation in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.268 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.228 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.554 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.204, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.204, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.204 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging an unspecified "type confusion" during a getRemote call, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8456.

Predictions

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

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
macos macosnot-affected
linux linux-kernelnot-affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobe adobeair_sdk{"endIncluding":"19.0.0.241"}
adobe adobeair_sdk_\&_compiler{"endIncluding":"19.0.0.241"}
adobe adobeair{"endIncluding":"19.0.0.241"}
adobe adobeflash_player{"endIncluding":"18.0.0.261"}
adobe adobeflash_player19.0.0.185
adobe adobeflash_player19.0.0.207
adobe adobeflash_player19.0.0.226
adobe adobeflash_player19.0.0.245

References

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

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