CVE-2016-4120: Adobe Air Desktop Runtime

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 6.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.352 and 19.x through 21.x before 21.0.0.242 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.621 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-1096, CVE-2016-1098, CVE-2016-1099, CVE-2016-1100, CVE-2016-1102, CVE-2016-1104, CVE-2016-4109, CVE-2016-4111, CVE-2016-4112, CVE-2016-4113, CVE-2016-4114, CVE-2016-4115, CVE-2016-4160, CVE-2016-4161, CVE-2016-4162, and CVE-2016-4163.

Affected products

• Adobe Air Desktop Runtime: up to and including 21.0.0.198
• Adobe Air SDK: up to and including 21.0.0.198
• Adobe Air SDK & Compiler: up to and including 21.0.0.198
• Adobe Flash Player: up to and including 21.0.0.241; up to and including 18.0.0.343; up to and including 11.2.202.616; up to and including 21.0.0.216
• Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime: up to and including 21.0.0.226

Published 2016-06-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.