Adobe Flash Player Use-After-Free Vulnerability
Adobe Flash Player com.adobe.tvsdk.mediacore.metadata Use After Free Vulnerability
A local attacker, without authentication, can achieve full data confidentiality loss, arbitrary modification of data, complete denial of service or system unavailability. CISA has confirmed use of this vulnerability in known ransomware campaigns — treat as high priority for remediation. Federal agencies are required to remediate by 2022-08-15 under CISA BOD 22-01.
This is a Use After Free (CWE-416) vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. Flash Player versions 31.0.0.153 and earlier, and 31.0.0.108 and earlier have a use after free vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution. Exploitation requires local access, low attack complexity, no authentication required, and user interaction required.
Probably yes if any of these apply:
Used in known ransomware campaigns. Threat-research write-up: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/46051/
Manual remediation steps
Apply the Vendor Patch
This vulnerability is in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — apply the vendor's security update as soon as possible.
CISA required action: The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
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