CVE-2016-0996 is a critical use-after-free vulnerability within the setInterval method of Adobe Flash Player, AIR, AIR SDK, and AIR SDK & Compiler across Windows, OS X, and Linux platforms. This flaw allows attackers to execute arbitrary code through specially crafted arguments. With a CVSS v3.1 score of 8.8 (High), the vulnerability is network-exploitable with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction, and can lead to high impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, it garnered significant community discussion and media coverage at the time, including reports of a Flash zero-day under attack.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 20.0.0.306CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:chrome:*:* | ||
<= 20.0.0.233CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:air:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 20.0.0.260CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:air_sdk:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
t-ms14jakucb-1102.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:samsung:x14j_firmware:t-ms14jakucb-1102.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 11.2.202.569CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:adobe:flash_player:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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