9.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2020-9746

Published: 14/10/2020 Updated: 08/09/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 828
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Adobe Flash Player version 32.0.0.433 (and previous versions) are affected by an exploitable NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that could result in a crash and arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of this issue requires an malicious user to insert malicious strings in an HTTP response that is by default delivered over TLS/SSL.

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Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Critical: flash-plugin security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Critical Topic An update for flash-plugin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 SupplementaryRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Critical A Common Vulnerability Scoring Syst ...

Recent Articles

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