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-2015-8647

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-8647 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability affecting Adobe Flash Player across Windows, OS X, and Linux, as well as Adobe AIR and its SDKs. This vulnerability, with a CVSS v3 score of 8.8 (High), allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code with user interaction, leading to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, its high FAUCET Risk Score of 74/100 and significant media coverage indicate its potential severity. Although no public exploit code is available, the vulnerability was addressed in an emergency patch, suggesting it may have been exploited in the wild.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 20.0.0.204CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:air:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 18.0.0.268CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
19.0.0.185CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:19.0.0.185:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
19.0.0.207CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:19.0.0.207:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
19.0.0.226CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:19.0.0.226:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

8.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/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
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
7.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0737 is in the 94th percentile among its peer group of 14,855 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, 0.2 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-0:11.2.202.559-1.el5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryFixed in: flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.559-1.el6_7
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2015-8647Critical

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-01

Dec 28, 2015

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00045.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00046.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00047.html
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-12/msg00048.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-2697.html
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/apsb16-01.html
PatchVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201601-03
securityfocus.com / bid/79701
securitytracker.com / id/1034544
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-15-650