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CVE-2015-3081

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-3081 is a race condition vulnerability affecting Adobe Flash Player across Windows, OS X, and Linux, as well as Adobe AIR and its SDKs. This flaw allows attackers to bypass Internet Explorer's Protected Mode protection mechanism through unspecified vectors. With a CVSS score of 4.3 (medium severity), it requires medium attack complexity and primarily impacts integrity, allowing for a bypass of security controls. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, an exploit demonstrating a sandbox escape via a timing attack is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 11.2.202.475CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 17.0.0.144CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:air:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 17.0.0.144CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:air_sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 17.0.0.144CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:air_sdk_\&_compiler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 13.0.0.264CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
11.35%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
95.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-37842 · Aug 19, 2015
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1135 is in the 95th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 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

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00007.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00010.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00016.html
helpx.adobe.com / security/products/flash-player/apsb15-09.html
PatchVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201505-02
exploit-db.com / exploits/37842
securityfocus.com / bid/74613
securitytracker.com / id/1032285