Adobe has released Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a priority update to plug Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a critical security flaw in its popular Flash Player on Windows . As per an official announcement by the company , the latest patch will address Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability issues in Adobe Flash Player 29.0.0.171 and other earlier versions . The vulnerabilities , according to Adobe , are being used by hackers to embed malicious content distributed via email . Security firm Icebrg on Thursday announced Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability that a zero-day vulnerability has led to exploitation in Adobe Flash specifically targeted towards users in the Middle East . The vulnerability ( CVE-2018-5002 ) enables attackers to execute certain actions by executing code on the victims ' computers . As per the blog post , the exploit uses a Microsoft Office document for the attack . To circumvent the fact that Adobe Flash is blocked on most browsers , the exploit involves loading Flash Player from within Microsoft Office . The flaw was reported Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability by Icebrg in collaboration with Qihoo 360 Core Security . `` While this attack leveraged a zero-day exploit , individual attacker actions do not happen in isolation . There are several other behavioural aspects that can be used for detection . Any single observable might be low confidence but multiple observables clustered might be indicative of suspicious or malicious activity , '' said Icebrg staff in its blog post . Of course , this is not the first instance wherein Flash Player 's vulnerabilities have been exploited Vulnerability-related.DiscoverVulnerability . Back in October last year , the company had issued Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a security patch to fix Vulnerability-related.PatchVulnerability a critical leak . Users have been strongly recommended to update Adobe Flash in order to avoid any such vulnerabilities seeping into your machines . The update , however , is not a guarantee towards protection against future discrepancies . It is thus advised to enable flash on only a secondary browser that is not used majorly on the computer .