CVE-2015-5119
Adobe Flash Player Use-After-Free Vulnerability
- Published
- Jul 8, 2015
- Updated
- Nov 17, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- adobe
- Evidence observed
- Jul 8, 2015
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HHigh · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 99.9%
- Model date
- Oct 17, 2026
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CISA Known Exploited
This CVE appears in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Summary
Use-after-free vulnerability in the ByteArray class in the ActionScript 3 (AS3) implementation in Adobe Flash Player 13.x through 13.0.0.296 and 14.x through 18.0.0.194 on Windows and OS X and 11.x through 11.2.202.468 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via crafted Flash content that overrides a valueOf function, as exploited in the wild in July 2015.
Sources
modules/exploits/multi/browser/adobe_flash_hacking_team_uaf.rb
Metasploit Framework modulesDeclared conditions
- platform: Linux,Windows($.exploit_multi/browser/adobe_flash_hacking_team_uaf.platform)
- verification: check_not_declared($.exploit_multi/browser/adobe_flash_hacking_team_uaf.check)
- CVE-2015-5119_walkthroughResearch
Archive from the article CVE-2015-5119 Flash ByteArray UaF: A beginner's walkthrough
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