Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.382 and 19.x through 23.x before 23.0.0.185 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.637 on Linux allows at…

published 2016-10-13 10 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-5273

cvss: 8.8; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 19.9%; EPSS 19.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits: 1; Exploit-DB

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.382 and 19.x through 23.x before 23.0.0.185 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.637 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-6982, CVE-2016-6983, CVE-2016-6984, CVE-2016-6985, CVE-2016-6986, CVE-2016-6989, and CVE-2016-6990.

Patch / fix

distros 3 links 1

ubuntu red hat suse

flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 11.2.202.637ubuntu0.14.04.1
flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 11.2.202.637ubuntu0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4273

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 11.2.202.637-1.el5_11
flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 11.2.202.637-1.el6_8

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:2057

flash-player SLED 12 SP1, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP1 11.2.202.637-143.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:2512-1

helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-32.html advisory

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-2016-4273 updated 2026-06-28 cvss 8.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-32

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.637-1.el5_11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.637-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 5) flash-plugin 11.2.202.637-1.el5_11 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.637-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 11.2.202.637-1.el6_8
fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2057

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Timeline

2016-10-12 First public exploit (EDB-40510)
2016-10-13 Published

Exploit prediction

19.90% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

EDB-40510 Adobe Flash Player 23.0.0.162 - '.SWF' ConstantPool Critical Memory Corruption dos, 2016-10-12

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

CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

helpx.adobe.com /security/products/flash-player/apsb16-32.html
patch, vendor-advisory
exploit-db.com /exploits/40510/
exploit, third-party-advisory, vdb-entry
security.gentoo.org /glsa/201610-10
vendor-advisory, third-party-advisory
rhn.redhat.com /errata/RHSA-2016-2057.html
vendor-advisory, third-party-advisory
securityfocus.com /bid/93490
vdb-entry, broken-link, third-party-advisory
securitytracker.com /id/1036985
vdb-entry, broken-link, third-party-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2016-4273
NVD CVE-2016-4273

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.

Summary