CVE-2022-43640: This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Foxit PDF Reader 12.0.1.12430. User interaction is…

PriorityP427medium5.5CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRNUIRSUCHINAN

EPSS

0.93%

56.9th percentile

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Foxit PDF Reader 12.0.1.12430. 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 PDF files. Crafted data in a PDF 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-18629.

Affected

5 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
foxit	pdf_editor	< 10.1.10	10.1.10
foxit	pdf_editor	>= 11.0.0 < 11.2.4	11.2.4
foxit	pdf_editor	>= 12.0.0.12394 < 12.0.2	12.0.2
foxit	pdf_reader	< 12.0.2	12.0.2
foxit	pdf_reader	—	—

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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