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CVE-2016-4230 in the critical feed json

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.366 and 19.x through 22.x before 22.0.0.209 on Windows and OS X and before…

published 2016-07-13 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-5230

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
32.2%
EPSS 32.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 98%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.366 and 19.x through 22.x before 22.0.0.209 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.632 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4173, CVE-2016-4174, CVE-2016-4222, CVE-2016-4226, CVE-2016-4227, CVE-2016-4228, CVE-2016-4229, CVE-2016-4231, and CVE-2016-4248.

Patch / fix

  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 11.2.202.632ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 11.2.202.632ubuntu0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4230

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • flash-plugin RHEL 5 EXTRAS 11.2.202.632-1.el5_11
  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 11.2.202.632-1.el6_8

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:1423

  • flash-player SLED 12 SP1, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP1 11.2.202.632-137.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:1826-1

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-2016-4230 updated cvss 8.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-25

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.632-1.el5_11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.632-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.632-1.el5_11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.632-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.632-1.el6_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:1423

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

Timeline

  1. Published
  2. First public exploit (EDB-40311)

Exploit prediction

32.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 98% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-40311 Adobe Flash - MovieClip Transform Getter Use-After-Free dos, 2016-08-29
  • bugs.chromium.org https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=844&q=adobe%20flash referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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.