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CVE-2015-0311

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-0311 is a critical, unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player across Windows, OS X, and Linux versions, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating a severe risk with network-based attacks requiring no user interaction, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. It was actively exploited in the wild in January 2015, with public exploit code available in Metasploit and significant community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 11.2.202.438CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 13.0.0.262CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 14.0.0.125, < 16.0.0.287CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:11:sp3:*:*:*:*:*:*
12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:suse:linux_enterprise_desktop:12:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
85.82%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Apr 13, 2022
Metasploit: Adobe Flash Player ByteArray UncompressViaZlibVariant Use After Free · Apr 28, 2014
ExploitDB: EDB-36360 · Mar 12, 2015
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.8582 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SupplementaryFixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.440-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.440-1.el6
View patch
adobevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-0311Critical

flash-plugin: multiple critical vulnerabilities (APSA15-01)(APSB15-03)

Jan 26, 2015

References

github.com / cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/196
Issue Tracking
cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
helpx.adobe.com / security/products/flash-player/apsa15-01.html
Vendor Advisory
helpx.adobe.com / security/products/flash-player/apsb15-03.html
Broken Link
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00027.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00031.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
malware.dontneedcoffee.com / 2015/01/unpatched-vulnerability-0day-in-flash.html
Third Party Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/62432
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/62543
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/62650
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/62660
Broken Link
secunia.com / advisories/62740
Broken Link
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-201502-02.xml
Third Party Advisory
technet.microsoft.com / library/security/2755801
PatchVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/72283
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1031597
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry