CVE-2018-4877: Adobe Flash Player

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 8.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A use-after-free vulnerability was discovered in Adobe Flash Player before 28.0.0.161. This vulnerability occurs due to a dangling pointer in the Primetime SDK related to media player's quality of service functionality. A successful attack can lead to arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

• Adobe Flash Player: before 28.0.0.161 (fixed in 28.0.0.161)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 6.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 6.0 only

Published 2018-02-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.