CVE-2015-7645 Adobe Flash Player Arbitrary Code Execution

What is CVE-2015-7645?

CVE-2015-7645 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player, published on 15 Oct 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Adobe Flash Player 18.x through 18.0.0.252 and 19.x through 19.0.0.207 on Windows and OS X and 11.x through 11.2.202.535 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted SWF file, as exploited in the wild in October 2015.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-7645?

It affects 10 products.

Products include Adobe Flash Player, Opensuse Evergreen, Opensuse Opensuse, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop, Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server and 4 more.

How do I fix CVE-2015-7645?

Upgrade to a fixed version. US federal agencies must fix it by 24 Mar 2022.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2015-7645 being exploited?

Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2015-7645 in the wild since at least 3 Mar 2022, including in ransomware campaigns.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

Other vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player

• CVE-2017-11292 Adobe Flash Player Type Confusion Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2016-7892 Adobe Flash Player Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2016-7855 Adobe Flash Player Use-After-Free Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2014-0497 Adobe Flash Player Integer Underflow Vulnerablity Exploited High 8.8
• CVE-2013-0643 Adobe Flash Player Incorrect Default Permissions Exploited High 8.8

All Adobe Flash Player vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-67j3-p5pq-jgr7, SUSE-SU-2015:1770-1, SUSE-SU-2015:1771-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-7645.