CVE-2021-38573

published 2021-08-11

CVE-2021-38573: An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10.1.4. It allows writing to arbitrary files because a CombineFiles pathname is not validated.

Priority P3 45 critical 9.8 CVSS 3.1

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

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10.1.4. It allows writing to arbitrary files because a CombineFiles pathname is not validated.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
foxitsoftware	foxit_reader	< 10.1.4	10.1.4
foxitsoftware	phantompdf	< 10.1.4	10.1.4

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 9.8 CRITICAL CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 7.5 HIGH AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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