How severe is CVE-2016-1019?

CVE-2016-1019 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 22.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2016-1019: Adobe Flash Player Arbitrary Code Execution

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability is confirmed as actively exploited and is listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Added to KEV

2022-03-03

Remediation due

2022-03-24

Ransomware

Known use

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

CISA notes
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1019

Description

Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.197 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2016.

Severity

CVSS 3.1 · CISA7.8 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/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

15 Links

Vendor advisories

Vulnerability databases

Other references

Record Details

Published

2016-04-07

Last updated

2026-10-01

Assigner (CNA)

adobe

Credited to

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