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high 8.8

CVE-2016-4166 json

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.242 and earlier, as used in the Adobe Flash libraries in Microsoft Internet Explorer…

published 2016-06-16 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-5167

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.9%
EPSS 3.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 90%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.242 and earlier, as used in the Adobe Flash libraries in Microsoft Internet Explorer 10 and 11 and Microsoft Edge, has unknown impact and attack vectors, a different vulnerability than other CVEs listed in MS16-083.

Patch / fix

  • flash-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 11.2.202.626-1.el5_11
  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 11.2.202.626-1.el6_8

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:1238

  • flash-player SLED 12 SP1, SLED 12, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP1 +1 more 11.2.202.626-133.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:1613-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2016-4166 updated cvss 6.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-18

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.626-1.el5_11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.626-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.626-1.el5_11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.626-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.626-1.el6_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:1238

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.