CVE-2015-5119
KEVCRITICAL 9.8EPSS 99.3%
Use-after-free vulnerability in the ByteArray class in the ActionScript 3 (AS3) implementation in Adobe Flash Player 13.x through 13.0.0.296 and 14.x through 18.0.0.194 on Windows and OS X and 11.x through 11.2.202.468 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted Flash content that overrides a valueOf function, as exploited in the wild in July 2015.
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v3.1 CNA
- 7.8 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 10.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C - EPSS
- 99.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 100th percentile
- CISA KEV
- added 2022-03-03
- Published
- 2015-07-08
- Updated
- 2025-11-17
Proof-of-concept exploits (5)
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/132600/Adobe-Flash-Player-ByteArray-Use-After-Free…
- http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/browser/adobe_flash_hacking_team_uaf
- Xattam1/Adobe-Flash-Exploits_17-181★ · 2021-09-19
- dangokyo/CVE-2015-51193★ · 2018-08-21
- jvazquez-r7/CVE-2015-511911★ · 2015-08-04
Metasploit modules (1)
ExploitDB entries (1)
Security advisories
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-03.html
- https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-16.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00015.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00016.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00017.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-07/msg00018.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1214.html
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/561288
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75568
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032809
- http://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/alerts/TA15-195A
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201507-13
- cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/196