Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2016-0984

92
FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-0984 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, AIR, and AIR SDK across Windows, OS X, and Linux platforms. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. With a CVSS score of 8.8 (High), it poses a significant risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This vulnerability has been actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its presence in the CISA KEV catalog and mentions of its use by the BlackOasis APT group, with public exploit code available on ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 20.0.0.272CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:internet_explorer:*:*
<= 20.0.0.272CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:edge:*:*
<= 11.2.202.559CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 20.0.0.286CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player_desktop_runtime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 18.0.0.326CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:esr:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

8.8HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
55.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · May 25, 2022
ExploitDB: EDB-39462 · Feb 17, 2016
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.5537 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 14,848 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

adobepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 SupplementaryFixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.569-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.569-1.el6_7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2016-0984Critical

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-04

Feb 9, 2016

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00025.html
Broken LinkThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00027.html
Broken LinkThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00029.html
Broken LinkThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00030.html
Broken LinkThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016-0166.html
Third Party Advisory
helpx.adobe.com / security/products/flash-player/apsb16-04.html
PatchVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201603-07
Third Party Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/39462
ExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1034970
Broken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry