CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-42409

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2023-01-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-01-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-125

Description

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of PDF-XChange Editor. 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-18315.

Affected configurations

• pdf-xchange pdf-xchange editor (< 9.5.366.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness

References