CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-26538

7.8 HIGH Published 2020-10-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-10-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10.1. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse taskkill.exe in the current working directory.

Affected configurations

• foxitsoftware foxit reader (< 10.1) • foxitsoftware phantompdf (< 10.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References