Adobe Flash Player Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2022-03-03
Federal due date
2022-03-24
Vendor
Adobe
Product
Flash Player
EPSS
99.8th percentile (score 0.930, as of 2026-06-08)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-4117

CISA short description

An access of resource using incompatible type vulnerability exists within Adobe Flash Player that allows an attacker to perform remote code execution.

Required action

The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.