CVE-2015-5562

published 2015-08-14

CVE-2015-5562: 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…

Priority P2 66 critical 10 CVSS 2.0

AV N AC L Au N C C I C A C

EXPLOIT

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 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging an unspecified "type confusion," a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-5554, CVE-2015-5555, and CVE-2015-5558.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
adobe	air	<= 18.0.0.180	—
adobe	air_sdk	<= 18.0.0.180	—
adobe	air_sdk_compiler	<= 18.0.0.180	—
adobe	flash_player	<= 11.2.202.491	—
adobe	flash_player	<= 18.0.0.209	—

Detection & IOCs extracted from sources · hover to see the quote

url https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/37881.zip↗

url https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=434&can=1&q=label%3AProduct-Flash%20modified-after%3A2015%2F8%2F17&sort=id↗

• → Exploit requires the malicious SWF to be hosted on a webserver (not local file) and targets only 32-bit systems; network-delivered SWF loading a secondary .swf (/sosuper.swf) and .mp3 (song1.mp3) from the same origin is a behavioral indicator. ↗
• → Look for ActionScript patterns where a Sound subclass overrides valueOf on a plain Object to trigger type confusion between SharedObject and Sound native types during loadSound execution. ↗
• → Monitor for Flash Player processes on 32-bit Windows loading both a .swf and a .mp3 resource from the same remote server in close succession, consistent with the PoC delivery mechanism. ↗

• · The vulnerability is only reliably exploitable on 32-bit systems; 64-bit deployments are not affected due to how the type-confused memory fields align. ↗
• · The PoC requires network delivery (webserver hosting); local file execution will not trigger the vulnerability. ↗

CVSS provenance

nvd v2.0 10.0 CRITICAL AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

osv 10.0 CRITICAL

vendor_redhat 10.0 CRITICAL

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