CVE-2018-4878 in Red Hat and Adobe Products
Published on February 6, 2018
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This Adobe Flash Player Use-After-Free vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. 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.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by May 3, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2018-4878 is exploitable with local system access, requires user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. This vulnerability is known to be actively exploited by threat actors. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Weakness Type
What is a Dangling pointer Vulnerability?
Referencing memory after it has been freed can cause a program to crash, use unexpected values, or execute code.
CVE-2018-4878 has been classified to as a Dangling pointer vulnerability or weakness.
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Exploit Probability
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