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CVE-2016-7866

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-7866 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting Adobe Animate versions 15.2.1.95 and earlier. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 9.8, indicating a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, low attack complexity, and potential for complete compromise, including arbitrary code execution. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit (EDB-40915) is publicly available, and the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 15.2.1.95CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:animate:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/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
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
15.78%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
96.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-40915 · Dec 14, 2016
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1578 is in the 93rd percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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 (1)

adobepatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

hyp3rlinx.altervista.org / advisories/ADOBE-ANIMATE-MEMORY-CORRUPTION-VULNERABILITY.txt
packetstormsecurity.com / files/140164/Adobe-Animate-15.2.1.95-Buffer-Overflow.html
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2016/Dec/45
helpx.adobe.com / security/products/animate/apsb16-38.html
PatchVendor Advisory
exploit-db.com / exploits/40915
securityfocus.com / archive/1/539923/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/94872