CVE-2016-4271

MEDIUM

Adobe Flash Player <19.x - Auth Bypass

Title source: llm

Description

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.375 and 19.x through 23.x before 23.0.0.162 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.635 on Linux allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions and obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4277 and CVE-2016-4278, aka a "local-with-filesystem Flash sandbox bypass" issue.

References (6)

[Broken Link, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory] http://lab.truel.it/flash-sandbox-bypass/

[Third Party Advisory] http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1865.html

[Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry] http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036791

[Exploit, Third Party Advisory] https://blog.bjornweb.nl/2017/02/flash-bypassing-local-sandbox-data-exfiltration-credentials-leak/

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb16-29.html

[Third Party Advisory] https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201610-10

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5

EPSS 0.0151

EPSS Percentile 81.0%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Classification

Status published

Affected Products (7)

adobe/flash_player < 11.2.202.632

adobe/flash_player < 22.0.0.211

adobe/flash_player < 22.0.0.211

adobe/flash_player_desktop_runtime < 22.0.0.211

adobe/flash_player < 18.0.0.366

adobe/flash_player < 22.0.0.211

n/a/n/a

Timeline

Published Sep 14, 2016

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026