Adobe Flash Player up to 9 Access Protection access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Adobe Flash Player and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Access Protection. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2006-4640. There is not any exploit available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Adobe Flash Player (Multimedia Player Software). This issue affects an unknown part of the component Access Protection. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Unspecified vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player before 9.0.16.0 allows user-assisted remote attackers to bypass the allowScriptAccess protection via unspecified vectors.

The bug was discovered 09/12/2006. The weakness was released 09/12/2006 by Stuart Pearson (ERRor) with Computer Terrorism (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at us-cert.gov. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2006-4640 since 09/08/2006. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 22056 (Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB06-11)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 165128 (SUSE Security Update for Flash Player (SUSE-SA:2006:053)).

Upgrading to version 9.0.16.0 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (44355), Tenable (22056), SecurityFocus (BID 19980†), OSVDB (28734†) and Secunia (SA21865†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-2361, VDB-2524, VDB-2525 and VDB-2523. Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.6

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 6.6
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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 22056
Nessus Name: Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities (APSB06-11)
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OpenVAS ID: 57354
OpenVAS Name: FreeBSD Ports: linux-flashplugin
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Flash Player 9.0.16.0
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: adobe.com

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Stuart Pearson (ERRor)
Organization: Computer Terrorism
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-4640 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-4640
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-32231

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X-Force: 44355
SecurityFocus: 19980 - Adobe Flash Player Multiple Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 21865 - Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 28734 - Adobe Flash Player allowScriptAccess Protection Unspecified Bypass
Vulnerability Center: 12705 - Adobe Flash Player and Flex Unspecified allowScriptAccess Protection Bypass, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2006-3577

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 15:51
Updated: 01/05/2025 13:00
Changes: 03/12/2015 15:51 (91), 06/25/2019 12:46 (1), 01/05/2025 13:00 (20)
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Cache ID: 216:7F8:103

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