CVE-2018-4878

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...

Basic Information

CVE State: PUBLISHED
Reserved Date: January 03, 2018
Published Date: February 06, 2018
Last Updated: February 04, 2025
Vendor: n/a
Product: Adobe Flash Player before 28.0.0.161
Description: 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 handling of listener objects. A successful attack can lead to arbitrary code execution. This was exploited in the wild in January and February 2018.

CVSS Scores

SSVC Information

Exploitation: active
Automatable: Yes
Technical Impact: total

Exploit Status

Exploited in the Wild: Yes (added 2021-11-03 00:00:00 UTC) Source
Proof of Concept Available: Yes (added 2018-12-19 13:22:03 UTC) Source
Used in Malware: Yes (added 2021-11-03 00:00:00 UTC) Source

References

http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2018/02/group-123-goes-wild.html https://threatpost.com/adobe-flash-player-zero-day-spotted-in-the-wild/129742/ https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb18-03.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0285 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1040318 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102893 https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2018/02/attacks-leveraging-adobe-zero-day.html https://blog.morphisec.com/flash-exploit-cve-2018-4878-spotted-in-the-wild-massive-malspam-campaign https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/adobe-flash-vulnerability-reappears-in-malicious-word-files/d/d-id/1331139 https://github.com/InQuest/malware-samples/tree/master/CVE-2018-4878-Adobe-Flash-DRM-UAF-0day https://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/us/security/news/vulnerabilities-and-exploits/north-korean-hackers-allegedly-exploit-adobe-flash-player-vulnerability-cve-2018-4878-against-south-korean-targets https://github.com/vysec/CVE-2018-4878 https://securingtomorrow.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/hackers-bypassed-adobe-flash-protection-mechanism/ https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44412/

Known Exploited Vulnerability Information

Source	Added Date
CISA	2021-11-03 00:00:00 UTC

Potential Proof of Concepts

Warning: These PoCs have not been tested and could contain malware. Use at your own risk.

lvyoshino/CVE-2018-4878

Type: github • Created: 2021-04-30 20:45:39 UTC • Stars: 0

Yable/CVE-2018-4878

Type: github • Created: 2018-12-19 13:22:03 UTC • Stars: 0

B0fH/CVE-2018-4878

Type: github • Created: 2018-10-17 02:11:24 UTC • Stars: 2

Metasploit module for CVE-2018-4878

SyFi/CVE-2018-4878

Type: github • Created: 2018-04-04 04:33:44 UTC • Stars: 8

Flash Exploit Poc

KathodeN/CVE-2018-4878

Type: github • Created: 2018-02-23 19:24:40 UTC • Stars: 0

CVE-2018-4878 样本

vysecurity/CVE-2018-4878

Type: github • Created: 2018-02-10 09:30:18 UTC • Stars: 87

Aggressor Script to launch IE driveby for CVE-2018-4878

mdsecactivebreach/CVE-2018-4878

Type: github • Created: 2018-02-09 13:30:46 UTC • Stars: 23

ydl555/CVE-2018-4878-

Type: github • Created: 2018-01-20 12:32:26 UTC • Stars: 1

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