Adobe Flash Player before 13.0.0.289 and 14.x through 17.x before 17.0.0.188 on Windows and OS X and before 11.2.202.460 on Linux, Adobe AIR before 17.0.0.172, Adobe AIR SDK before 17.0.0.172, and Adobe AIR SDK & Compiler before 17.0.0.172 do not properly restrict discovery of memory addresses, which allows attackers to bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-3092.
The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flash_player | Adobe | * | 11.2.202.475 (including) |
| Adobe-flashplugin | Ubuntu | precise | * |
| Adobe-flashplugin | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Adobe-flashplugin | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Adobe-flashplugin | Ubuntu | utopic | * |
| Adobe-flashplugin | Ubuntu | vivid | * |
| Flashplugin-nonfree | Ubuntu | devel | * |
| Flashplugin-nonfree | Ubuntu | precise | * |
| Flashplugin-nonfree | Ubuntu | trusty | * |
| Flashplugin-nonfree | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
| Flashplugin-nonfree | Ubuntu | utopic | * |
| Flashplugin-nonfree | Ubuntu | vivid | * |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Supplementary | RedHat | flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.460-1.el5 | * |
| Supplementary for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | RedHat | flash-plugin-0:11.2.202.460-1.el6_6 | * |
There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker. Some kinds of sensitive information include:
Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected. These parties include:
Information exposures can occur in different ways:
It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an “information exposure,” but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read. CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.