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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2017-11215 json

An issue was discovered in Adobe Flash Player 27.0.0.183 and earlier versions.

published 2017-12-09 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-2849

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.1%
EPSS 6.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue was discovered in Adobe Flash Player 27.0.0.183 and earlier versions. This vulnerability is an instance of a use after free vulnerability in the Primetime SDK. The mismatch between an old and a new object can provide an attacker with unintended memory access -- potentially leading to code corruption, control-flow hijack, or an information leak attack. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Patch / fix

  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 27.0.0.187ubuntu0.14.04.1
  • flashplugin-nonfree Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 27.0.0.187ubuntu0.16.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-11215

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 6 EXTRAS 27.0.0.187-1.el6_9

red hat advisories RHSA-2017:3222

  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 93.0.4577.82-1.1
  • chromium openSUSE Tumbleweed 113.0.5672.92-1.1
  • chromium Package Hub 12 SP2 66.0.3359.181-55.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10681-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12948-1openSUSE-SU-2018:1175-1openSUSE-SU-2018:1437-1

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-2017-11215 updated cvss 8.8

flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB17-33

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 27.0.0.187-1.el6_9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 27.0.0.187-1.el6_9 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Supplementary (v. 6) flash-plugin 27.0.0.187-1.el6_9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2017:3222

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

6.08% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • n/a Adobe Flash Player 27.0.0.183 and earlier versions

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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