CVE-2016-0985

high

Description

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 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by leveraging an unspecified "type confusion."

References

Advisories
More

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201603-07

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0166.html

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39461/

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

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2016-0995

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034970

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00030.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00029.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00027.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-02/msg00025.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-02-10

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.26081