What is CVE-2015-3093?

CVE-2015-3093 is a vulnerability in Adobe Air, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2015-05-13.

Is CVE-2015-3093 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Buffer overflow in Adobe Air

CVE-2015-3093

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 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-3078, CVE-2015-3089, and CVE-2015-3090.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2015-05-13 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.476 (98.8th percentile), scored 2026-10-02.

Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 99th percentile — 98.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.476 · newest: 0.476 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Adobe Air
Adobe Air Sdk
Adobe Air Sdk \& Compiler
Adobe Flash Player — versions 14.0.0.125, 14.0.0.145, 14.0.0.176
Apple Mac OS X
Linux Kernel
Microsoft Windows

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

Public proof-of-concept exploits

ARPSyndicate/cve-scores

References

www.securitytracker.com/id/1032285 (vdb-entry)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00007.html (vendor-advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00010.html (vendor-advisory)
helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-09.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201505-02 (vendor-advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00016.html (vendor-advisory)
www.exploit-db.com/exploits/37846/ (exploit)
rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1005.html (vendor-advisory)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/74605 (vdb-entry)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-3093?: CVE-2015-3093 is a vulnerability in Adobe Air, classified under Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. Published 2015-05-13.
Is CVE-2015-3093 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.