CVE-2015-0311: Adobe Flash Player Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities

Name: Adobe Flash Player Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Vendor: Adobe
Product: Flash Player
Added to the catalog: 2022-04-13
Due date for US federal agencies: 2022-05-04
Catalog version: 2026.10.30

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player allows remote attackers to execute code.

Required action (CISA)

The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

Ransomware use: CISA does not mark known use of this vulnerability in ransomware campaigns.

Links in CISA's notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-0311

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NVD analysis

Status: Analyzed
Published: 2015-01-23T21:59:04.897
Last modified: 2026-06-17T00:19:58.077
Weaknesses: NVD-CWE-noinfo

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player through 13.0.0.262 and 14.x, 15.x, and 16.x through 16.0.0.287 on Windows and OS X and through 11.2.202.438 on Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unknown vectors, as exploited in the wild in January 2015.

Metric	Score	Severity	Vector	Scored by
CVSS 3.1	9.8	CRITICAL	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	[email protected] (Primary)
CVSS 3.1	7.8	HIGH	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)
CVSS 2.0	10	HIGH	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C	[email protected] (Primary)

References

http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-01.html (Vendor Advisory)
http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-03.html (Broken Link)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00027.html (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00031.html (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://malware.dontneedcoffee.com/2015/01/unpatched-vulnerability-0day-in-flash.html (Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/62432 (Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/62543 (Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/62650 (Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/62660 (Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/62740 (Broken Link)
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-02.xml (Third Party Advisory)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72283 (Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031597 (Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/2755801 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-01.html (Vendor Advisory)
http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-03.html (Broken Link)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00027.html (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-01/msg00031.html (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://malware.dontneedcoffee.com/2015/01/unpatched-vulnerability-0day-in-flash.html (Third Party Advisory)
http://secunia.com/advisories/62432 (Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/62543 (Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/62650 (Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/62660 (Broken Link)
http://secunia.com/advisories/62740 (Broken Link)
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201502-02.xml (Third Party Advisory)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72283 (Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031597 (Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/2755801 (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/issues/196 (Issue Tracking)
https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2015-0311 (US Government Resource)

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CVE record

Assigner: adobe
State: PUBLISHED
Published: 2015-01-23T21:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2025-11-17T20:19:18.996Z
Problem types: n/a

References

GLSA-201502-02
62660
62740
62432
62650
SUSE-SU-2015:0163
72283
62543
https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/2755801
http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-03.html
SUSE-SU-2015:0151
http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsa15-01.html
1031597
http://malware.dontneedcoffee.com/2015/01/unpatched-vulnerability-0day-in-flash.html

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Cite this page

Dragons Eye Ransomware Tracker, "CVE-2015-0311: Adobe Flash Player Remote Code Execution Vulnerability",
entity page, dataset version ref-e11bdf6849ca, updated 2026-11-02T23:39:54.475Z,
https://ransomware-tracker.com/cve/CVE-2015-0311 (accessed 2026-11-03).
Underlying source: CISA Catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, version 2026.10.30.
Underlying source: National Vulnerability Database (NIST), CVE API 2.0, record last modified 2026-06-17T00:19:58.077.
Underlying source: CVE List (CVE Program, The MITRE Corporation), record updated 2025-11-17T20:19:18.996Z.

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