VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2015-8459

critical
Published 2015-12-28 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
10.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.324 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.267 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.559 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.233, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.233, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.233 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8460, CVE-2015-8636, and CVE-2015-8645.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
98%
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/apsb16-01.html

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

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
adobeair_sdk{"endIncluding":"20.0.0.204"}
adobeair_sdk_\&_compiler{"endIncluding":"20.0.0.204"}
adobeair{"endIncluding":"20.0.0.204"}
adobeflash_player{"endIncluding":"11.2.202.554"}
adobeflash_player19.0.0.185
adobeflash_player19.0.0.207
adobeflash_player19.0.0.226
adobeflash_player19.0.0.245
adobeflash_player20.0.0.228
adobeflash_player20.0.0.235

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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