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Fencer Vulns
high 8.8

CVE-2016-7869 in the critical feed json

Adobe Flash Player versions 23.0.0.207 and earlier, 11.2.202.644 and earlier have an exploitable buffer overflow / underflow vulnerability…

published 2016-12-15 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-8718

cvss
8.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
11.3%
EPSS 11.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Adobe Flash Player versions 23.0.0.207 and earlier, 11.2.202.644 and earlier have an exploitable buffer overflow / underflow vulnerability in the RegExp class related to backtrack search functionality. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Patch / fix

  • flash-plugin RHEL 6 EXTRAS 24.0.0.186-1.el6_8

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:2947

  • flash-player SLED 12 SP1, SLE Workstation Extension 12 SP1 24.0.0.186-152.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2016:3148-1

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-2016-7869 updated cvss 8.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-39

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 flash-plugin
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 24.0.0.186-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 24.0.0.186-1.el6_8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 24.0.0.186-1.el6_8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:2947

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

11.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% 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 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • n/a Adobe Flash Player 23.0.0.207 and earlier, 11.2.202.644 and earlier

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.