CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-18689

5.3 MEDIUM Published 2021-01-07 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-01-07
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-347

Description

The Portable Document Format (PDF) specification does not provide any information regarding the concrete procedure of how to validate signatures. Consequently, a Signature Wrapping vulnerability exists in multiple products. An attacker can use /ByteRange and xref manipulations that are not detected by the signature-validation logic. This affects Foxit Reader before 9.4 and PhantomPDF before 8.3.9 and 9.x before 9.4. It also affects eXpert PDF 12 Ultimate, Expert PDF Reader, Nitro Pro, Nitro Reader, PDF Architect 6, PDF Editor 6 Pro, PDF Experte 9 Ultimate, PDFelement6 Pro, PDF Studio Viewer 2018, PDF Studio Pro, PDF-XChange Editor and Viewer, Perfect PDF 10 Premium, Perfect PDF Reader, Soda PDF, and Soda PDF Desktop.

Affected configurations

• avanquest expert pdf ultimate 12.0.20 • avanquest pdf experte ultimate 9.0.270 • foxitsoftware foxit reader 9.1.0 • foxitsoftware foxit reader 9.2.0.9297 • foxitsoftware foxit reader 9.3.0.10826 • gonitro nitro pro 11.0.3.173 • gonitro nitro reader 5.5.9.2 • iskysoft pdf editor 6 6.4.2.3521 • iskysoft pdfelement6 6.8.0.3523 • iskysoft pdfelement6 6.8.4.3921 • pdf-xchange pdf-xchange editor 7.0.237.1 • pdf-xchange pdf-xchange editor 7.0.326 • pdfforge pdf architect 6.0.37 • pdfforge pdf architect 6.1.24.1862 • qoppa pdf studio 12.0.7 • qoppa pdf studio viewer 2018 2018.0.1 • qoppa pdf studio viewer 2018 2018.2.0 • sodapdf soda pdf 9.3.17 • sodapdf soda pdf desktop 10.2.09 • sodapdf soda pdf desktop 10.2.16.1217 • soft-xpansion perfect pdf 10 10.0.0.1 • soft-xpansion perfect pdf reader 13.0.3 • soft-xpansion perfect pdf reader 13.1.5 • tracker-software pdf-xchange viewer 2.5 • visagesoft expert pdf reader 9.0.180 • foxitsoftware foxit reader 9.2.0 • iskysoft pdf editor 6 6.6.2.3315 • iskysoft pdf editor 6 6.7.6.3399 • iskysoft pdfelement6 6.7.1.3355 • iskysoft pdfelement6 6.7.6.3399

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-347 Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature weakness

References