CVE-2018-19444 — Use After Free in Foxit PDF SDK Activex

CWE-416 — Use After Free3 documents3 sources
Severity
7.8HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 41.37%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Foxitsoftware Foxit PDF SDK Activex
Timeline
PublishedJun 17
Latest updateMay 24

Description

A use after free in the TextBox field Validate action in IReader_ContentProvider can occur for specially crafted PDF files in Foxit Reader SDK (ActiveX) Professional 5.4.0.1031. An attacker can leverage this to gain remote code execution. Relative to CVE-2018-19452, this has a different free location and requires different JavaScript code for exploitation.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages1 packages

Patches

Patch: www.foxitsoftware.com ↗Patch: www.foxitsoftware.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-5m9c-2qvm-g4pf: A use after free in the TextBox field Validate action in IReader_ContentProvider can occur for specially crafted PDF files in Foxit Reader SDK (Active↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2018-19444: A use after free in the TextBox field Validate action in IReader_ContentProvider can occur for specially crafted PDF files in Foxit Reader SDK (Active↗2019-06-17
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