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CVE-2015-8043

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-8043 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, AIR, and related SDKs across Windows, OS X, and Linux platforms. This flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely with low attack complexity. With a CVSS score of 10.0, the vulnerability poses a severe risk of complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, public exploit code exists (EDB-39022), and it garnered significant community discussion and media coverage at the time, indicating its potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 19.0.0.213CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:air:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 19.0.0.213CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:air_sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 19.0.0.213CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:air_sdk_\&_compiler:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 11.2.202.540CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 19.0.0.190CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:air:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
29.40%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-39022 · Dec 17, 2015
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.2940 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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

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-0:11.2.202.548-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.548-1.el6_7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-8043Critical

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB15-28

Nov 10, 2015

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-11/msg00071.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-2023.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-2024.html
helpx.adobe.com / security/products/flash-player/apsb15-28.html
PatchVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201511-02
securityfocus.com / bid/77533
securitytracker.com / id/1034111