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 (ActiveX)…

PriorityP340high7.8CVSS 3.0

AVLACLPRNUIRSUCHIHAH

EPSS

2.45%

82.5th percentile

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.

Affected

1 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
foxitsoftware	foxit_pdf_sdk_activex	<= 5.5.0	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.8HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.06.8MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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