CVE-2016-7858: Adobe Flash Player

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Adobe Flash Player versions 23.0.0.205 and earlier, 11.2.202.643 and earlier have an exploitable use-after-free vulnerability. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

• Adobe Flash Player: up to and including 23.0.0.205
• Adobe Flash Player For Linux: up to and including 11.2.202.643
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 5.0 only; version 6.0 only

Published 2016-11-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.