CVE-2018-5002 in Red Hat and Adobe Products
Published on July 9, 2018
Known Exploited Vulnerability
This Adobe Flash Player Stack-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Adobe Flash Player have a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that could lead to remote code execution.
The following remediation steps are recommended / required by June 13, 2022: The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2018-5002 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 Stack Overflow Vulnerability?
A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function).
CVE-2018-5002 has been classified to as a Stack Overflow vulnerability or weakness.
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Exploit Probability
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