How severe is CVE-2016-0984?

CVE-2016-0984 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 54.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2016-0984: Adobe Flash Player and AIR Use-After-Free Vulnerability

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player and AIR Use-After-Free Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-05-25

Remediation due

2022-06-15

Required action
The impacted products are end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-0984

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.329 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.306 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.569 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.260, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.260, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.260 allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0973, CVE-2016-0974, CVE-2016-0975, CVE-2016-0982, and CVE-2016-0983.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA8.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC · CISA-ADP

Exploitationactive

Automatableno

Technical impacttotal

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
-	-	n/a

References

9 Links

Vendor advisories

Exploits & PoCs

39462

Vulnerability databases

1034970

Other references

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-04.html

Record Details

Published

2016-02-10

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

adobe

Credited to

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