How severe is CVE-2016-7855?

CVE-2016-7855 has a CVSS 3.1 base score of 8.8 (HIGH). EPSS estimates a 25.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days. It is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CVE-2016-7855: Adobe Flash Player Use-After-Free

CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Adobe Flash Player Use-After-Free 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

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-2016-7855

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 23.0.0.205 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.643 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in October 2016.

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

7 Links

Vendor advisories

Vulnerability databases

Other references

Record Details

Published

2016-11-01

Last updated

2025-10-21

Assigner (CNA)

adobe

Credited to

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