March 3, 2022 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2016-1019 — Adobe Flash Player
known ransomware use
Adobe Flash Player Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability
- Added to KEV
2022-03-03- Federal due date
2022-03-24- Vendor
- Adobe
- Product
- Flash Player
- EPSS
- 97.6th percentile (score 0.225, as of
2026-09-16) - NVD CVSS v3.1
- 9.8 (CRITICAL)
- Ransomware use
- Known
- ATT&CK
- T1105 , T1189 , T1486 · signal rollup
- Upstream
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1019
CISA short description
Adobe Flash Player allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code.
Required action
The impacted product is end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.
NVD description
Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.197 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2016.