CVE-2016-0959

CRITICALNVD 9.89.8
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.

Score 9.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2022-05-14. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3

Also known asEUVD-2016-0969 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 5.2%CVSS: 9.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Use after free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime before 20.0.0.267, Adobe Flash Player Extended Support Release before 18.0.0.324, Adobe Flash Player for Google Chrome before 20.0.0.267, Adobe Flash Player for Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 before 20.0.0.267, Adobe Flash Player for Internet Explorer 10 and 11 before 20.0.0.267, Adobe Flash Player for Linux before 11.2.202.559, AIR Desktop Runtime before 20.0.0.233, AIR SDK before 20.0.0.233, AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.233, AIR for Android before 20.0.0.233.

CVSS v3
9.8
EG Score
9.8CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
46
EG Risk 46/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity98% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation5.2% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's BOD 26-04 default: no one has published Automatable for this CVE, and CISA treats it as “no” for a CVE not in KEV.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
5.2%
EPSS %ILE
92nd
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
5.2% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-11). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (no CISA value, KEV listing or exploit code on record) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). EchelonGraph holds no SSVC assessment of this CVE from CISA: none of these inputs is from Vulnrichment. EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA's BOD 26-04 default) · Technical impact total (CISA's BOD 26-04 default). Where an input reads “CISA's BOD 26-04 default”, no one has published it for this CVE, and CISA's implementation guidance says: “If “Automatable” and “Technical Impact” information items about a CVE ID are not available and the CVE ID is not in the KEV Catalog, CISA will treat its values as “no” and “total,” respectively, until CISA or a third party provides metadata about the CVE ID. CISA will always provide the Vulnrichment data for a CVE ID listed in the KEV Catalog.” Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

June 27, 2017

Last Modified

June 17, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Oct 7, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

1294580 – (CVE-2015-8459, CVE-2015-8460, CVE-2015-8634, CVE-2015-8635, CVE-2015-8636, CVE-2015-8638, CVE-2015-8639, CVE-2015-8640, CVE-2015-8641, CVE-2015-8642, CVE-2015-8643, CVE-2015-8644, CVE-2015-8645, CVE-2015-8646, CVE-2015-8647, CVE-2015-8648, CVE-2015-8649, CVE-2015-8650, CVE-2015-8651, CVE-2016-0959) flash-plugin: multiple code execution issues fixed in APSB16-01

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1294580

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatflash-plugin-0:11.2.202.559-1.el6_72015-12-29redhat

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

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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 21× in last 7d / 92× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed its CVE.org record (CNA or CISA ADP). An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). "EchelonGraph re-scored" is our own recompute of this CVE's score, not an update from a source, and is not counted in the refreshes above. Most recent first.

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  1. 2026-11-12 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.2% · 92nd percentile
  2. 2026-11-12 11:49 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  3. 2026-11-12 11:49 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-11-12 11:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  5. 2026-11-11 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.2% · 92nd percentile
  6. 2026-11-11 13:36 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  7. 2026-11-11 13:36 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-11-11 13:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  9. 2026-11-10 16:30 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.2% · 92nd percentile
  10. 2026-11-10 15:23 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-11-10 15:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  12. 2026-11-09 17:10 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  13. 2026-11-09 17:10 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-11-09 17:10 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  15. 2026-11-09 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.2% · 92nd percentile
  16. 2026-11-08 18:58 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  17. 2026-11-08 18:58 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-11-08 18:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  19. 2026-11-08 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.2% · 92nd percentile
  20. 2026-11-07 20:46 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  21. 2026-11-07 20:46 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-11-07 20:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  23. 2026-11-07 16:29 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.2% · 92nd percentile
  24. 2026-11-06 22:33 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  25. 2026-11-06 22:33 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-11-06 22:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  2. 2026-11-06 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.2% · 92nd percentile
  3. 2026-11-06 00:21 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  4. 2026-11-06 00:21 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-11-06 00:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  6. 2026-11-05 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.2% · 92nd percentile
  7. 2026-11-05 02:09 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  8. 2026-11-05 02:09 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-11-05 02:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  10. 2026-11-04 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.2% · 92nd percentile
  11. 2026-11-04 03:56 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  12. 2026-11-04 03:56 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-11-04 03:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  14. 2026-11-03 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.2% · 92nd percentile
  15. 2026-11-03 05:43 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  16. 2026-11-03 05:43 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-11-03 05:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  18. 2026-11-02 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.2% · 92nd percentile
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  20. 2026-11-02 07:31 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-11-02 07:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  22. 2026-11-01 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.2% · 92nd percentile
  23. 2026-11-01 09:19 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  24. 2026-11-01 09:19 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-11-01 09:19 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  26. 2026-10-31 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.2% · 92nd percentile
  27. 2026-10-31 11:05 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  28. 2026-10-31 11:05 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-10-31 11:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  30. 2026-10-30 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.2% · 92nd percentile
  31. 2026-10-30 12:52 UTCEchelonGraph re-scored
  32. 2026-10-30 12:52 UTCVendor advisory
  33. 2026-10-30 12:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  37. 2026-10-29 14:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
  38. 2026-10-28 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 5.2% · 92nd percentile
  39. 2026-10-28 16:25 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-10-28 16:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  42. 2026-10-27 18:13 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-10-27 18:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  46. 2026-10-26 20:01 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-10-26 20:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  50. 2026-10-25 19:47 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-10-25 19:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  54. 2026-10-24 21:33 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-10-24 21:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  58. 2026-10-23 23:21 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-10-23 23:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  62. 2026-10-23 00:52 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-10-23 00:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  67. 2026-10-22 02:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  71. 2026-10-21 03:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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  75. 2026-10-20 05:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xhrc-66pf-63mr · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2016-0959?
CVE-2016-0959 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on June 27, 2017. Use after free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime before 20.0.0.267, Adobe Flash Player Extended Support Release before 18.0.0.324, Adobe Flash Player for Google Chrome before 20.0.0.267, Adobe Flash Player for Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer 11 before 20.0.0.267, Adobe Flash…
When was CVE-2016-0959 made public?
CVE-2016-0959 was made public on December 28, 2015: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Adobe Systems Incorporated, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on June 27, 2017. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of June 17, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2016-0959 actively exploited?
CVE-2016-0959 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 5.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (92nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2016-0959?
CVE-2016-0959 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2016-0959?
A fix for CVE-2016-0959 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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