CVE-2015-8642 — Improper Certificate Validation in Adobe AIR

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation20 documents6 sources
Severity
8.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
5.0%
top 10.23%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
4
Adobe AIRAdobe AIR SDKAdobe AIR SDK Compiler+1 more
Timeline
PublishedDec 28
Latest updateMay 17

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in 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 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8634, CVE-2015-8635, CVE-2015-8638, CVE-2015-8639, CVE-2015-8640, CVE-2015-8641, CVE-2015-8643, CVE-2015-8646, CVE-2015-8647…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

▶NVDadobe/flash_player18.0.0.268+7
▶NVDadobe/air_sdk_compiler20.0.0.204
▶NVDadobe/air20.0.0.204
▶NVDadobe/air_sdk20.0.0.204

Patches

Patch: helpx.adobe.com ↗Patch: helpx.adobe.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-whmw-g3g3-wh9q: Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2022-05-17
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OSV
CVE-2015-8642: Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2015-12-28
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CVEList
CVE-2015-8642: Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18↗2015-12-28
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-01↗2015-12-28
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-01↗2015-12-28
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-01↗2015-12-28
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-01↗2015-12-28
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Red Hat
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-01↗2015-12-28
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-01↗2015-12-29
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Bugzilla
CVE-2014-8642 Mozilla: Delegated OCSP responder certificates failure with id-pkix-ocsp-nocheck extension (MFSA 2015-08)↗2015-01-12
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