CVE-2016-6981: Adobe Flash Player

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 5.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Use-after-free vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 18.0.0.382 and 19.x through 23.x before 23.0.0.185 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.637 on Linux allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-6987.

Affected products

• Adobe Flash Player: up to and including 23.0.0.162; up to and including 18.0.0.375; up to and including 11.2.202.635
• Adobe Flash Player Desktop Runtime: up to and including 23.0.0.162

Published 2016-10-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.