Zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player

Attackers exploited the vulnerabilities together to attack a government entity to and steal politically sensitive data that is a known target of the Russian group (APT campaign).

Advisory: SB20150414 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player

Vulnerable component: Adobe Flash Player

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-3043

CVSSv3 score: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:H/RL:O/RC:C

CWE-ID: CWE-119 - Memory corruption

Description:

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists due to boundary error. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted Web site, trick the victim into visiting it, trigger memory corruption and execute arbitrary code with privileges of the current user.

Successful exploitation results in arbitrary code execution on the vulnerable system.

Note: the vulnerability was being actively exploited.

- Adobe Flash Player - Nellymoser Audio Decoding Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) [Exploit-DB]

- Adobe Flash Player - Nellymoser Audio Decoding Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) [Exploit-DB]

External links:

https://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-06.html http://resources.infosecinstitute.com/the-shadow-of-the-russian-cyber-army-behind-the-2016-president...
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/04/critical-updates-for-windows-flash-java/#more-30672
http://www.securityweek.com/russia-linked-hackers-used-two-zero-days-recent-targeted-attack-fireeye
http://www.zdnet.com/article/russian-hackers-exploit-flash-windows-flaws-to-spy-on-diplomat-targets/
https://www.fireeye.com/blog/threat-research/2015/04/probable_apt28_useo.html
http://www.eweek.com/security/russian-based-attackers-use-two-zero-days-in-one-attack.html
http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/36105/cyber-crime/apt28-russian-hackers.html
https://www.advancedbusinesssolutions.com/blog/curated-content/russian-hackers-use-flash-windows-zer...
https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/apt28-back-russiandoll-attack/