CVE-2015-3043

CRITICAL KEV

Adobe Flash Player <14.x - Memory Corruption

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Exploitation Summary

CVE-2015-3043 is actively exploited and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added March 3, 2022. EIP tracks 1 public exploit from researchers including Metasploit.

AI-analyzed exploit summary This Metasploit module exploits a buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player (CVE-2015-3113) via malformed Nellymoser audio data in an FLV file, achieving remote code execution on vulnerable systems. It targets Windows and Linux with specific Flash versions and delivers a payload through a crafted SWF and FLV file.

Description

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.281 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.169 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.457 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2015, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-0347, CVE-2015-0350, CVE-2015-0352, CVE-2015-0353, CVE-2015-0354, CVE-2015-0355, CVE-2015-0360, CVE-2015-3038, CVE-2015-3041, and CVE-2015-3042.

Exploits (1)

exploitdb WORKING POC VERIFIED
by Metasploit · rubyremotemultiple
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37536

This Metasploit module exploits a buffer overflow in Adobe Flash Player (CVE-2015-3113) via malformed Nellymoser audio data in an FLV file, achieving remote code execution on vulnerable systems. It targets Windows and Linux with specific Flash versions and delivers a payload through a crafted SWF and FLV file.

Classification
Working Poc 100%
Attack Type
Rce
Complexity
Moderate
Reliability
Reliable
Target: Adobe Flash Player (versions up to 18.0.0.160 on Windows, 11.2.202.466 on Linux)
No auth needed
Prerequisites: Vulnerable Adobe Flash Player version · Victim visits a malicious webpage hosting the exploit
devstral-2 · analyzed Feb 16, 2026 Full analysis →

References (12)

Core 12
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00010.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00011.html
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74062
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-07
Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032105
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0813.html
Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry exploit x_refsource_exploit-db
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37536/
Broken Link, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-06.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00013.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00012.html

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.8740
EPSS Percentile 99.5%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation active
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CISA KEV 2022-03-03
VulnCheck KEV 2015-04-13
InTheWild.io 2015-04-13
ENISA EUVD EUVD-2015-3124
CWE
CWE-787
Status published
Products (17)
adobe/flash_player < 11.2.202.457
novell/suse_linux_enterprise_desktop 11.0 sp3
novell/suse_linux_enterprise_desktop 12.0
novell/suse_linux_enterprise_workstation_extension 12.0
opensuse/evergreen 11.4
opensuse/opensuse 13.1
opensuse/opensuse 13.2
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 5.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_eus 6.6
... and 7 more
Published Apr 14, 2015
KEV Added Mar 03, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026