CVE-2020-35931

published 2020-12-31

CVE-2020-35931: An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader before 10.1.1 (and before 4.1.1 on macOS) and PhantomPDF before 9.7.5 and 10.x before 10.1.1 (and before 4.1.1 on…

Priority P3 38 high 7.8 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR N UI R S U C H I H A H

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader before 10.1.1 (and before 4.1.1 on macOS) and PhantomPDF before 9.7.5 and 10.x before 10.1.1 (and before 4.1.1 on macOS). An attacker can spoof a certified PDF document via an Evil Annotation Attack because the products fail to consider a null value for a Subtype entry of the Annotation dictionary, in an incremental update.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
foxitsoftware	foxit_reader	< 10.1.1	10.1.1
foxitsoftware	foxit_reader	< 4.1.1	4.1.1
foxitsoftware	phantompdf	< 9.7.5	9.7.5
foxitsoftware	phantompdf	< 4.1.1	4.1.1
foxitsoftware	phantompdf	>= 10.0.0 < 10.1.1	10.1.1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 6.8 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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