CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-8856

7.8 HIGH Published 2016-10-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-10-31
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-275

Description

Foxit Reader for Mac 2.1.0.0804 and earlier and Foxit Reader for Linux 2.1.0.0805 and earlier suffered from a vulnerability where weak file permissions could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. After the installation, Foxit Reader's core files were world-writable by default, allowing an attacker to overwrite them with backdoor code, which when executed by privileged user would result in Privilege Escalation, Code Execution, or both.

Affected configurations

• foxitsoftware reader (<= 2.1.0.0804) • foxitsoftware reader (<= 2.1.0.0805)

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References