CVE-2022-42383: This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of PDF-XChange Editor. User interaction is required to…

PriorityP426medium5.5CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRNUIRSUCHINAN

EPSS

0.34%

26.0th percentile

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of PDF-XChange Editor. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the parsing of U3D files. Crafted data in a U3D file can trigger a read past the end of an allocated buffer. An attacker can leverage this in conjunction with other vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-18652.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
pdf-xchange	pdf-xchange_editor	< 9.5.366.0	9.5.366.0
pdf-xchange	pdf-xchange_editor	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.15.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

nvdv3.03.3LOWCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

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