CVE-2016-0972: Adobe Air Desktop Runtime

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.329 and 19.x and 20.x before 20.0.0.306 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.569 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 20.0.0.260, Adobe AIR SDK before 20.0.0.260, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 20.0.0.260 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-0964, CVE-2016-0965, CVE-2016-0966, CVE-2016-0967, CVE-2016-0968, CVE-2016-0969, CVE-2016-0970, CVE-2016-0976, CVE-2016-0977, CVE-2016-0978, CVE-2016-0979, CVE-2016-0980, and CVE-2016-0981.

Affected products

• Adobe Air Desktop Runtime: up to and including 20.0.0.233
• Adobe Air SDK: up to and including 20.0.0.233
• Adobe Air SDK & Compiler: up to and including 20.0.0.233
• Adobe Flash Player: up to and including 11.2.202.559; up to and including 18.0.0.326; up to and including 20.0.0.272; up to and including 20.0.0.286
• Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime: up to and including 20.0.0.286

Published 2016-02-10. Last modified 2026-06-17.