CVE-2016-1019 | Netskope Threat Labs

Description

This detection identifies exploitation attempts targeting CVE-2016-1019, which has a CRITICAL severity rating. Adobe Flash Player 21.0.0.197 and earlier allows remote cyberattackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as exploited in the wild in April 2016.

Stats

First seen: September 2022
Last seen: October 2026

CVEs

CVE-2016-1019

Alert name variants

Alert Name	Engine
ByteCode-SWF.Exploit.CVE-2016-1019	ATP Sandbox Adv. Heuristics

Related IPS Signatures

Signature Name	Engine
FILE-FLASH Adobe Flash Player toString type confusion memory corruption attempt	IPS-SWG

References

nvd.nist.gov