CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-19444
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-06-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-416
Description
A use after free in the TextBox field Validate action in IReader_ContentProvider can occur for specially crafted PDF files in Foxit Reader SDK (ActiveX) Professional 5.4.0.1031. An attacker can leverage this to gain remote code execution. Relative to CVE-2018-19452, this has a different free location and requires different JavaScript code for exploitation.
Affected configurations
• foxitsoftware foxit pdf sdk activex (<= 5.5.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-416 Use After Free weakness
References
- https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php Patch, Vendor Advisory