CVE-2020-26539 — Use After Free in Foxit Reader

CWE-416 — Use After Free3 documents3 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
2.8%
top 13.80%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Foxitsoftware Foxit ReaderFoxitsoftware Phantompdf
Timeline
PublishedOct 2
Latest updateMay 24

Description

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10.1. When there is a multiple interpretation error for /V (in the Additional Action and Field dictionaries), a use-after-free can occur with resultant remote code execution (or an information leak).

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

Patches

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-x9q9-5gcc-4mvx: An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10↗2022-05-24
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CVEList
CVE-2020-26539: An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10↗2020-10-02
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