Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2016-0984

Adobe Flash Player and AIR Use-After-Free Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Adobe
Product Flash Player and AIR
Weakness CWE-416

The vulnerability

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR allows attackers to execute code.

Required action

The impacted products are end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 15 June 2022 under BOD 22-01. The deadline is a compliance date, not a measure of severity — it says nothing about how dangerous the flaw is to anyone else.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 12 Nov 2026, 21:26. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

NVD record ↗ CVE.org record ↗

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