CVE-2017-2995
Adobe Flash Player versions 24.0.0.194 and earlier have an exploitable type confusion vulnerability related to the MessageChannel class. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.
02 Description
Adobe Flash Player versions 24.0.0.194 and earlier have an exploitable type confusion vulnerability related to the MessageChannel class. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 6.43% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 93.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 8.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Critical. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2017-02-15 06:11Z9 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 14:09Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-12-02
- Assigning CNA
- adobe
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-843Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 3ada37e6dae1142b11898bd7a5447e5364e95f40b716a96c9270471d540f5fe9
05 Affected products
06 References
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201702-20https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-20
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2017:0275http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0275.html
- www.securityfocus.com96191http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96191
- www.securitytracker.com1037815http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1037815
- helpx.adobe.comhttps://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb17-04.html
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- flashplugin-nonfree Fixed in 24.0.0.221ubuntu0.14.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- flashplugin-nonfree Fixed in 24.0.0.221ubuntu0.16.04.1
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.