CVE-2016-0981

high

Published 2016-02-10 · Modified 2026-05-06

CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

VIR risk

8.8

Description

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.329 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.306 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.569 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.260, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.260, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.260 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0964, CVE-2016-0965, CVE-2016-0966, CVE-2016-0967, CVE-2016-0968, CVE-2016-0969, CVE-2016-0970, CVE-2016-0972, CVE-2016-0976, CVE-2016-0977, CVE-2016-0978, CVE-2016-0979, and CVE-2016-0980.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

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

OS	Version	Status
windows	-	not-affected
macos	-	not-affected
linux-kernel	-	not-affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
adobe	flash_player	`{"endIncluding":"11.2.202.559"}`
adobe	flash_player_desktop_runtime	`{"endIncluding":"20.0.0.286"}`
adobe	air_desktop_runtime	`{"endIncluding":"20.0.0.233"}`
adobe	air_sdk	`{"endIncluding":"20.0.0.233"}`
adobe	air_sdk_\&_compiler	`{"endIncluding":"20.0.0.233"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-787

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