CVE-2015-3043

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-03-03), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: cisa_kev, epss, ghsa, nvd
Trending — 5 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild
9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV)
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 74%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: cisa kev · ssvc active · Metasploit · Exploit-DB (verified) · epss top5pct · epss high · public exploitExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.281 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.169 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.457 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2015, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-0347, CVE-2015-0350, CVE-2015-0352, CVE-2015-0353, CVE-2015-0354, CVE-2015-0355, CVE-2015-0360, CVE-2015-3038, CVE-2015-3041, and CVE-2015-3042.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8(high)
EG Risk
84(Attend)
EG Risk 84/100SSVC: Attend

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity98% × 45%
Exploitation100% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Remediate soon — notable exploitation risk.
EPSS PROB
74%
EPSS %ILE
99%
KEV
⚠ Exploited

Published

April 14, 2015

Last Modified

April 21, 2026

Advisory Details (5)

Auto-updated Sep 17, 2026
⚠️ Active exploitation confirmed. No patch confirmed yet.
generic🔴 Active Exploitation

Adobe Flash Player - Nellymoser Audio Decoding Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) - Multiple remote Exploit

https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37536/
generic

Adobe Flash Player: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201504-07) — Gentoo security

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201504-07
generic

CVE-2015-0347 - PSIRT.COM

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74062
generic
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0813.html
generic
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032105

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
redhatflash-plugin-0:11.2.202.457-1.el6_62015-04-15redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(1)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 89× in last 7d / 394× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 1,412 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-09-19 14:36 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-09-19 14:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-19 10:21 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-09-19 10:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-09-19 06:08 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-09-19 06:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-09-19 01:55 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-09-19 01:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-09-18 21:42 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-09-18 21:42 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-09-18 21:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-09-18 19:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-09-18 19:20 UTCCISA KEV update
  14. 2026-09-18 17:29 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-09-18 17:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-09-18 14:15 UTCCISA KEV update
  17. 2026-09-18 13:16 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-09-18 13:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-18 09:03 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-09-18 09:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-18 04:50 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-09-18 04:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-09-18 00:37 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-09-18 00:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-09-17 20:24 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-09-17 20:24 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-09-17 20:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-17 19:21 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-09-17 16:10 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-09-17 16:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-09-17 11:57 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-09-17 11:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-09-17 07:44 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-09-17 07:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-09-17 03:31 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-09-17 03:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-09-16 23:18 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-09-16 23:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-09-16 19:04 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-09-16 19:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-09-16 14:51 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-09-16 14:51 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-09-16 14:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-16 14:10 UTCCISA KEV update
  20. 2026-09-16 10:34 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-09-16 10:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-09-16 06:20 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-09-16 06:20 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-09-16 06:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  25. 2026-09-16 02:06 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-09-16 02:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  27. 2026-09-15 21:52 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-09-15 21:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  29. 2026-09-15 17:39 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-09-15 17:39 UTCGHSA enrichment
  31. 2026-09-15 13:26 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-09-15 13:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  33. 2026-09-15 09:13 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-09-15 09:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  35. 2026-09-15 05:00 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-09-15 05:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
  37. 2026-09-15 00:44 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-09-15 00:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
  39. 2026-09-14 20:31 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-09-14 20:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  41. 2026-09-14 19:24 UTCCISA KEV update
  42. 2026-09-14 16:18 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-09-14 16:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  44. 2026-09-14 12:05 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-09-14 12:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  46. 2026-09-14 07:51 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-09-14 07:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
  48. 2026-09-14 03:38 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-09-14 03:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  50. 2026-09-13 23:25 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-09-13 23:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  52. 2026-09-13 19:12 UTCEG score recompute
  53. 2026-09-13 19:12 UTCVendor advisory
  54. 2026-09-13 19:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  55. 2026-09-13 14:59 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-09-13 14:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  57. 2026-09-13 10:46 UTCVendor advisory
  58. 2026-09-13 10:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  59. 2026-09-13 06:32 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-09-13 06:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  61. 2026-09-13 02:19 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-09-13 02:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  63. 2026-09-12 22:06 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-09-12 22:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
  65. 2026-09-12 17:53 UTCEG score recompute
  66. 2026-09-12 17:53 UTCVendor advisory
  67. 2026-09-12 17:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  68. 2026-09-12 14:55 UTCEPSS rescore
  69. 2026-09-12 13:40 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-09-12 13:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  71. 2026-09-12 09:27 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-09-12 09:27 UTCGHSA enrichment
  73. 2026-09-12 05:14 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-09-12 05:14 UTCGHSA enrichment
  75. 2026-09-12 01:01 UTCVendor advisory

Publicly available exploits

(2 references)

Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 Metasploit module) (1 Exploit-DB entry). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-37536✓ verified
    First seen Jul 8, 2015

    Adobe Flash Player - Nellymoser Audio Decoding Buffer Overflow (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/multi/browser/adobe_flash_nellymoser_bof✓ verified
    First seen Jun 23, 2015

    Adobe Flash Player Nellymoser Audio Decoding Buffer Overflow

    Open source ↗

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Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2015-3043?
CVE-2015-3043 is a critical vulnerability published on April 14, 2015. Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.281 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.169 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.457 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2015, a different…
When was CVE-2015-3043 disclosed?
CVE-2015-3043 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on April 14, 2015, with the most recent update on April 21, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2015-3043 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2015-3043 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 3, 2022, affecting Adobe Flash Player. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate patching attention.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2015-3043?
CVE-2015-3043 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
Which products are affected by CVE-2015-3043?
CVE-2015-3043 affects Adobe Flash Player. The full affected-products list, including version ranges and fixed versions, is shown in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2015-3043?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2015-3043, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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