Exploitation Summary
CVE-2016-4171 is actively exploited and listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, added March 25, 2022.
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.242 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in June 2016.
References (12)
Core 12
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201606-08
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa16-03.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00038.html
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource third-party-advisory
x_refsource_cert-vn
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/748992
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1238
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00035.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_sectrack
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036094
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-06/msg00031.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/91184
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-18.html
Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2016-4171
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/196
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.4416
EPSS Percentile
97.6%
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
2022-03-25
VulnCheck KEV
2016-06-15
InTheWild.io
2016-06-15
ENISA EUVD
EUVD-2016-5172
Status
published
Products (13)
adobe/flash_player
< 11.2.202.621
adobe/flash_player
< 18.0.0.352
adobe/flash_player
< 21.0.0.242 (3 CPE variants)
opensuse/opensuse
13.1
opensuse/opensuse
13.2
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop
5.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop
6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server
5.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_server
6.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_workstation
5.0
... and 3 more
Published
Jun 16, 2016
KEV Added
Mar 25, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026