CVE-2016-6983: Adobe Flash Player

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2016-4273, CVE-2016-6982, CVE-2016-6984, CVE-2016-6985, CVE-2016-6986, CVE-2016-6989, and CVE-2016-6990.

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.