📄 Description (English)
Adobe Flash Player Integer Overflow Vulnerability — Integer overflow in Adobe Flash Player allows attackers to execute code.
🤖 AI Executive Summary
CVE-2015-8651 is a critical integer overflow vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted content. This vulnerability has known exploits in the wild and was actively exploited as a zero-day. With a CVSS score of 9.0, it poses severe risk to any organization still running unpatched Flash Player instances. Despite patches being available since December 2015, legacy systems and unpatched environments remain vulnerable.
📄 Description (Arabic)
🤖 AI Intelligence Analysis Analyzed: Apr 4, 2026 18:15
🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia Impact Assessment
This vulnerability poses significant risk to Saudi organizations that may still have legacy systems running Adobe Flash Player, particularly in government agencies (NCA-regulated entities), banking sector (SAMA-regulated institutions with legacy web applications), healthcare systems with older medical device interfaces, and educational institutions. Energy sector organizations including ARAMCO and its contractors may have legacy SCADA HMI interfaces or internal portals still dependent on Flash. Telecom providers like STC may have legacy customer portals affected. The active exploitation in the wild makes this especially dangerous for any Saudi entity with unpatched Flash installations.
🏢 Affected Saudi Sectors
Government
Banking
Energy
Healthcare
Telecom
Education
Defense
⚖️ Saudi Risk Score (AI)
8.5
/ 10.0
🔧 Remediation Steps (English)
Immediate Actions:
1. Identify all systems running Adobe Flash Player across the organization using asset inventory tools.
2. Apply Adobe Security Bulletin APSB16-01 patch immediately on any remaining Flash installations.
3. Uninstall Adobe Flash Player entirely where possible — Flash reached end-of-life in December 2020.
Compensating Controls:
1. Block Flash content at the web proxy/gateway level.
2. Disable Flash Player in all browsers via Group Policy.
3. Implement application whitelisting to prevent Flash-based exploit execution.
4. Deploy network-level IDS/IPS signatures for CVE-2015-8651 exploit patterns.
Detection Rules:
1. Monitor for suspicious SWF file downloads and execution.
2. Alert on Flash Player processes spawning child processes (cmd.exe, powershell.exe).
3. Implement YARA rules for known exploit kit payloads targeting this CVE.
4. Review endpoint detection logs for integer overflow exploitation indicators in Flash processes.
🔧 خطوات المعالجة (العربية)
الإجراءات الفورية:
1. تحديد جميع الأنظمة التي تشغل Adobe Flash Player عبر المؤسسة باستخدام أدوات جرد الأصول.
2. تطبيق تصحيح نشرة أمان Adobe رقم APSB16-01 فوراً على أي تثبيتات Flash متبقية.
3. إزالة تثبيت Adobe Flash Player بالكامل حيثما أمكن — انتهى دعم Flash في ديسمبر 2020.
الضوابط التعويضية:
1. حظر محتوى Flash على مستوى بوابة الويب/الوكيل.
2. تعطيل Flash Player في جميع المتصفحات عبر سياسة المجموعة.
3. تنفيذ القوائم البيضاء للتطبيقات لمنع تنفيذ الاستغلال المستند إلى Flash.
4. نشر توقيعات IDS/IPS على مستوى الشبكة لأنماط استغلال CVE-2015-8651.
قواعد الكشف:
1. مراقبة تنزيلات ملفات SWF المشبوهة وتنفيذها.
2. التنبيه عند قيام عمليات Flash Player بإنشاء عمليات فرعية مثل cmd.exe أو powershell.exe.
3. تنفيذ قواعد YARA لحمولات مجموعات الاستغلال المعروفة التي تستهدف هذه الثغرة.
4. مراجعة سجلات كشف نقاط النهاية لمؤشرات استغلال تجاوز العدد الصحيح في عمليات Flash.
📋 Regulatory Compliance Mapping
🟢 NCA ECC 2024
2-3-1 (Patch Management)
2-5-1 (Vulnerability Management)
2-2-1 (Asset Management)
2-6-1 (Malware Protection)
🔵 SAMA CSF
3.3.3 (Patch Management)
3.3.5 (Vulnerability Management)
3.1.1 (Asset Inventory)
3.3.7 (Malware Protection)
🟡 ISO 27001:2022
A.8.8 (Management of technical vulnerabilities)
A.8.7 (Protection against malware)
A.8.9 (Configuration management)
A.5.7 (Threat intelligence)
🟣 PCI DSS v4.0
6.3.3 (Patching security vulnerabilities)
6.2 (System components protected from known vulnerabilities)
5.2 (Anti-malware mechanisms)
11.3 (Penetration testing)
🔗 References & Sources 0
No references.
📦 Affected Products / CPE 1 entries
Adobe:Flash Player