A regression affecting Adobe Flash Player version 27.0.0.187 (and earlier versions) causes the unintended reset of the global settings preference file when a user clears browser data.

Versions of Adobe Flash Player prior to 28.0.0.126 are unpatched, and therefore affected by a remote security vulnerability which may allow an attacker to reset the global settings preference file.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:0081 advisory.

    The flash-plugin package contains a Mozilla Firefox compatible Adobe Flash Player web browser plug-in.

    This update upgrades Flash Player to version 28.0.0.137.

    Security Fix(es):

    * This update fixes multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player. These vulnerabilities, detailed in the     Adobe Security Bulletins listed in the References section, could allow an attacker to create a specially     crafted SWF file that would cause flash-plugin to disclose sensitive information or modify its settings     when the victim loaded a page containing the malicious SWF content. (CVE-2017-11305, CVE-2018-4871)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Windows host is missing security update KB4053577. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability which may allow an attacker to reset the global settings preference file.

The version of Adobe Flash Player installed on the remote macOS or Mac OS X host is equal or prior to version 27.0.0.187.
It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability which may allow an attacker to reset the global settings preference file.

The version of Adobe Flash Player installed on the remote Windows host is equal or prior to version 27.0.0.187. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability which may allow an attacker to reset the global settings preference file.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
700428	Flash Player < 28.0.0.126 Business Logic Error (APSB17-42)	Nessus Network Monitor	Web Clients	medium
105743	RHEL 6 : flash-plugin (RHSA-2018:0081)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
105178	KB4053577: Security update for Adobe Flash Player (December 2017)	Nessus	Windows : Microsoft Bulletins	medium
105176	Adobe Flash Player for Mac <= 27.0.0.187 (APSB17-42)	Nessus	MacOS X Local Security Checks	medium
105175	Adobe Flash Player <= 27.0.0.187 (APSB17-42)	Nessus	Windows	medium

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2017-11305

medium

Tenable Plugins

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high

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