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CVE-2015-5568

45
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-5568 is a critical vulnerability affecting Adobe Flash Player, AIR, AIR SDK, and AIR SDK & Compiler across Windows, OS X, and Linux platforms. It allows attackers to cause a denial of service through vector-length corruption, with potential for other unspecified impacts, via unknown vectors. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over a network with no authentication required, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in KEV, an ExploitDB entry for "uint Capacity Field" exists, but there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 11.2.202.508CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 13.0.0.289CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.0.0.125CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:14.0.0.125:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.0.0.145CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:14.0.0.145:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
14.0.0.176CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:14.0.0.176:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
19.87%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
97.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-38348 · Sep 28, 2015
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.1987 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 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-0:11.2.202.521-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.521-1.el6_7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-5568Moderate

flash-plugin: information leaks and hardening bypass fixed in APSB15-23

Sep 21, 2015

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00022.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00023.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-09/msg00024.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-10/msg00018.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-1814.html
code.google.com / p/google-security-research/issues/detail
h20564.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
h20566.www2.hpe.com / portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay
helpx.adobe.com / security/products/flash-player/apsb15-23.html
PatchVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201509-07
exploit-db.com / exploits/38348
securityfocus.com / bid/76798
securitytracker.com / id/1033629