CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2018-4878

A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in Adobe Flash Player before 28.0.0.161. This vulnerability occurs due to a dangling pointer in the Primetime SDK related to media player handling of listener objects. A successful attack can lead to arbitrary code execution. This was exploited in the wild in January and February 2018.

7.5 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 10 / Impact : 6.4

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

9.8 /10

CVSS v3.0 : CRITICAL

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/vulnerabilities-and-exploits/north-korean-hackers-allegedly-exploit-adobe-flash-player-vulnerability-cve-2018-4878-against-south-korean-targets Technical Description Third Party Advisory
https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2018/02/attacks-leveraging-adobe-zero-day.html Third Party Advisory
https://threatpost.com/adobe-flash-player-zero-day-spotted-in-the-wild/129742/ Third Party Advisory
https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb18-03.html Vendor Advisory
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040318 Broken Link
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102893 Broken Link
http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/02/group-123-goes-wild.html Technical Description Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0285 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/vysec/CVE-2018-4878 Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/InQuest/malware-samples/tree/master/CVE-2018-4878-Adobe-Flash-DRM-UAF-0day Third Party Advisory
https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/adobe-flash-vulnerability-reappears-in-malicious-word-files/d/d-id/1331139 Press/Media Coverage Third Party Advisory
https://blog.morphisec.com/flash-exploit-cve-2018-4878-spotted-in-the-wild-massive-malspam-campaign Third Party Advisory
https://securingtomorrow.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/hackers-bypassed-adobe-flash-protection-mechanism/ Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44412/ Exploit Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2018-02-06 09:29

Updated : 2022-04-18 02:26

NVD link : CVE-2018-4878

Mitre link : CVE-2018-4878

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
CWE-416