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CVE-2016-1010 Adobe CVE debrief

CVE-2016-1010 is an integer overflow vulnerability affecting Adobe Flash Player and AIR. CISA includes it in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which means it is treated as a vulnerability with known exploitation. CISA also notes the impacted products are end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use.

Vendor
Adobe
Product
Flash Player and AIR
CVSS
Unknown
CISA KEV
Listed
Original CVE published
2022-05-25
Original CVE updated
2022-05-25
Advisory published
2022-05-25
Advisory updated
2022-05-25

Who should care

Organizations that still have Adobe Flash Player or Adobe AIR anywhere in their environment, especially on legacy endpoints, kiosks, virtual machines, or embedded applications. Security teams should also care if they are inventorying end-of-life software or responding to CISA KEV requirements.

Technical summary

The vulnerability is identified as an integer overflow in Adobe Flash Player and AIR. The supplied source corpus does not provide a CVSS score, exploit chain details, or patch guidance. What it does establish is that CISA has added CVE-2016-1010 to the KEV catalog and specifically states the affected products are end-of-life and should be disconnected if still present.

Defensive priority

Urgent: treat as a high-priority legacy-software removal or isolation item because it is listed in CISA KEV and the affected products are end-of-life.

Recommended defensive actions

  • Inventory all systems for any remaining Adobe Flash Player or Adobe AIR installations.
  • Remove or disable the affected software wherever possible.
  • If the software cannot be removed immediately, disconnect the impacted systems from networks as CISA recommends for end-of-life products.
  • Prioritize legacy hosts, VMs, kiosks, and embedded applications that may still depend on Flash or AIR.
  • Validate that no business-critical workflow still depends on Flash/AIR and migrate to supported alternatives.
  • Track remediation against the CISA KEV due date and document any exceptions until the software is fully retired.

Evidence notes

The CISA KEV source item lists CVE-2016-1010 with vendorProject 'Adobe', product 'Flash Player and AIR', dateAdded '2022-05-25', dueDate '2022-06-15', and requiredAction stating the impacted products are end-of-life and should be disconnected if still in use. The source item also points to the NVD record for CVE-2016-1010. Official reference links for the CVE record and vulnerability database are included below for verification.

Sources and references

Verified primary and authoritative sources

  • CVE-2016-1010 CVE Program record

    Publisher, destination, and source semantics verified

    URL: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-1010

    CVE Program - Official CVE Program record with source-provided CVE metadata.

  • CVE-2016-1010 NVD vulnerability detail

    Publisher, destination, and source semantics verified

    URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-1010

    NIST National Vulnerability Database - Official NIST NVD detail page and source-specific vulnerability assessment.

  • CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

    Publisher, destination, and source semantics verified

    URL: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog

    Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency - Official CISA catalog of vulnerabilities known to be exploited in the wild.

Supplemental references

  • Source item URL

    Unverified legacy reference

    URL: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/feeds/known_exploited_vulnerabilities.json

    cisa_kev

Methodology and review provenance

AI-assisted synthesis based on stored public vulnerability evidence. System validation, approval state, and publication status do not by themselves establish human review of this revision. PatchSiren helps prioritize defensive review and does not prove exposure or remediation on any system.