Known exploited vulnerability

CVE-2018-15982

Adobe Flash Player Use-After-Free Vulnerability

What is affected

Vendor Adobe
Product Flash Player
Weakness CWE-416

The vulnerability

Adobe Flash Player com.adobe.tvsdk.mediacore.metadata Use After Free Vulnerability

Required action

The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

US federal civilian agencies were required to act by 15 August 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.

Ransomware

CISA records this vulnerability as having been used in ransomware campaigns. That is a confirmed observation, not an assessment of likelihood.

Where this comes from

Every field on this page is taken from the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, last synced 11 Nov 2026, 21:30. Nothing here is our own assessment. For the technical scoring, see the NVD record below.

NVD record ↗ CVE.org record ↗

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