Security News > 2020 > October > Adobe Patches Critical Code Execution Vulnerability in Flash Player
Adobe has patched a critical arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Flash Player.
"Successful exploitation could lead to an exploitable crash, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user," Adobe explained in its advisory.
Adobe patched CVE-2020-9746 with the release of Flash Player 32.0.0.445 for Windows, macOS, Linux and Chrome OS. The company says there is no evidence that the vulnerability has been exploited for malicious purposes, and while the bug has been classified as critical, Adobe has assigned it a priority rating of 2, which means it does not expect it to be exploited any time soon.
"As is typically the case for Flash Player vulnerabilities, web-based exploitation is the primary vector of exploitation but not the only one. These vulnerabilities can also be exploited through an embedded ActiveX control in a Microsoft Office document or any application that uses the IE rendering engine," Nick Colyer, senior product marketing manager at Automox, told SecurityWeek.
Colyer added, "As a security best practice, remediation of commonly exploitable or recurring threat vectors is always strongly encouraged. For organizations that cannot remove Adobe Flash due to a business-critical function, it is recommended to mitigate the threat potential of these vulnerabilities by preventing Adobe Flash Player from running altogether via the killbit feature, set a Group Policy to turn off instantiation of Flash objects, or limit trust center settings prompting for active scripting elements."
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Related Vulnerability
| DATE | CVE | VULNERABILITY TITLE | RISK |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-10-14 | CVE-2020-9746 | NULL Pointer Dereference vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player Adobe Flash Player version 32.0.0.433 (and earlier) are affected by an exploitable NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that could result in a crash and arbitrary code execution. | 8.8 |