PDF Reader vulnerabilities
223 known vulnerabilities in PDF Reader from Foxit. 223 are rated high or critical. Each entry lists the affected versions and the release that fixes it, where the vendor has published one.
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- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
A use-after-free vulnerability exists in Foxit PDF Editor/Reader’s handling of PDF annotations. Reentrant annotation deletion triggered by embedded JavaScript can cause the application to access an annotation object after it has been released, resulting in a u
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Out-of-bounds Write
Foxit PDF Editor/Reader does not perform sufficient verification of the JPEG2000 image metadata in the PDF file, which leads to out-of-bounds write in the heap buffer during decoding, potentially causing the program to crash and introducing the risk of arbitra
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Time-of-check Time-of-use (TOCTOU) Race Condition
A vulnerability in Foxit PDF Editor/Reader’s update mechanism allows an update package to be replaced between download and high-privilege extraction due to insufficient file locking and integrity validation. This could enable local attackers to execute arbitra
- 8.1 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Improper Certificate Validation
A vulnerability in Foxit PDF Editor/Reader’s update mechanism allows man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass certificate validation and package integrity checks, potentially enabling arbitrary code execution with system privileges.
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Out-of-bounds Write
A heap-based out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in Foxit PDF Editor/Reader’s PRC parser due to insufficient validation of vertex indices in triangular fan texture meshes. Successful exploitation could result in memory corruption and an application crash.
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
A use-after-free vulnerability exists in Foxit PDF Editor/Reader’s handling of malformed PDF form fields. Improper validation during field-name traversal may cause the application to access a released object, resulting in an application crash.
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
A use-after-free vulnerability exists in Foxit PDF Editor/Reader’s handling of PDF form fields. Embedded JavaScript may access form-field references after the corresponding fields have been released, resulting in an application crash.
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
A use-after-free vulnerability exists in Foxit PDF Editor/Reader’s PDF page-tree handling. A specially crafted PDF can trigger page-structure changes during rendering, causing the application to access released page objects and resulting in memory corruption a
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Out-of-bounds Write
A heap-based out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in Foxit PDF Editor/Reader’s rendering of Circle annotations with malformed Cloudy appearance streams in specially crafted PDF files. Insufficient validation of the appearance geometry can result in memory
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Uncontrolled Search Path Element
A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the updater of Foxit PDF Editor/Reader due to unsafe loading of dynamic-link libraries from a user-writable directory during high-privilege operations. A local attacker could exploit this issue to execute co
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
A path traversal vulnerability exists in Foxit PDF Editor/Reader's handling of embedded PDF resources. Insufficient validation of resource file paths may allow files to be written outside their intended locations, potentially enabling arbitrary code execution.
- 8.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the installer of Foxit PDF Editor for macOS due to insufficient validation of a user-modifiable configuration value during high-privilege upgrades. A local attacker could exploit this issue to execute arbitr
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
A use-after-free vulnerability exists in Foxit PDF Editor/Reader’s handling of JavaScript array objects. A specially crafted PDF may cause the application to access a released object during array processing, potentially resulting in application crashes or arbi
- 8.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the update daemon of Foxit PDF Editor/Reader due to an insecure permission configuration that allows the configuration file to be modified by regular users, which may lead to arbitrary script execution with
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: External Control of File Name or Path
Foxit PDF Editor/Reader failed to validate the directory traversal path in the attachment file name, resulting in malicious attachments being able to be written to directories outside the expected secure area when the PDF is opened.
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Untrusted Pointer Dereference
Foxit PDF Editor/Reader's FileOpen plugin did not adequately validate certain encryption metadata in specially crafted PDF files. This could leave an internal pointer in an invalid state, resulting in chained read and write access violations and potentially en
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Out-of-bounds Write
An out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the PDF rendering process of Foxit PDF Editor/Reader due to insufficient consistency and boundary validation when processing malformed color space data, which may cause the program to crash and potentially lead to
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
When opening a specially crafted PDF, Foxit PDF Editor/Reader executes scripts that modify annotation rich-text attributes containing malformed font data. During subsequent annotation appearance reconstruction, it accesses an object after it has been released,
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
When processing a specially crafted PDF, Foxit PDF Editor/Reader may perform reentrant zoom and layout operations through page- and annotation-related JavaScript actions. This can cause the application to access page objects after they have been released, resu
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
When processing a specially crafted PDF file, Foxit PDF Editor/Reader may encounter a reentrant execution condition involving JavaScript triggered by page-visibility events. This can cause the application to access a released page-view object while calculating
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
When rendering the page image, Foxit PDF Editor/Reader fails to perform validation on image objects whose optional content attributes are malformed. As a result, the program may access an already-freed internal data structure, triggering a crash due to UAF.
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Out-of-bounds Write
Foxit PDF Editor/Reader’s U3D/GIF texture decoding path contained insufficient validation of image dimensions and related size information. Under certain conditions, this could lead to an incorrectly sized memory allocation and a subsequent out-of-bounds write
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Out-of-bounds Write
The application opened a PDF file containing an abnormal Unity 3D object. During parsing, the application incorrectly resolved a portion of the abnormal object as a pointer and used it as a valid address, ultimately causing the application to crash.
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
When the application opens a PDF and executes JavaScript, it performs abnormal operations on the list box field, and this operation is repeated after the form is reset. During this process, the application failed to adequately verify the validity of the form o
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type
There is an abnormal annotation within the PDF that is referenced by other objects. When the application parses the PDF, it fails to perform proper type checking, ultimately causing the application to crash.
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
When the application opens a PDF file, during the process of JavaScript deleting pages and removing attachment annotations, it will cause the attachment panel to continue accessing invalid pointers, eventually leading to the application crashing.
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Improper Validation of Array Index
The application opens a PDF, but the cloud-like appearance of the construction process lacks proper setting of an upper limit and consistency checks. Out-of-bounds access to the underlying array is exposed, ultimately leading to a crash of the application.
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
When the application opens a PDF and JavaScript resets the form fields, the script re-enters the interface. The underlying native object is damaged, but the application does not perform validation. The function call on the damaged object leads to the applicati
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
After the application opened the PDF file, the script first reset the annotation status, then triggered the reset form event by additional action. During the re-entry process, the application access invalid objects and crashed.
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference
When the application opens a PDF file and JavaScript writes annotation attributes, there is a lack of sufficient object type and argument checks. As a result, due to the damage to the internal structure of the annotations, it causes the application to crash du
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
The application re-enters the document structure via field processing and deletes the current page, and then continues using the field objects obtained before deletion, triggering an illegal read and crashing.
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
When dealing with abnormally constructed objects, there is a lack of argument validation; JavaScript triggers signature verification, but the signature plugin does not perform validation when copying the abnormal string, causing the application to crash.
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
When the application opens a PDF, traverses and builds the annotation elements related to hyperlinks, it fails to validate the abnormal annotation relationships and field combinations. This results in the internal objects entering an invalid state. Eventually,
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
After JavaScript resetting the form, the synchronization process lacks re-entry protection and object lifecycle verification, resulting in the failure of the control pointer during the traversal process. After the pointer fails, it still continues to dereferen
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
The application opens the PDF, and JavaScript modifies the form. However, the related objects on the page lack complete lifecycle management and null value validation; when the page state changes, the application continuously dereferences invalid objects, even
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
When the application opens a PDF file and JavaScript deletes the PDF fields, the subsequent logic still uses the old field pointers, resulting in invalid pointer references and causing the application to crash.
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Uncontrolled Search Path Element
The user-controllable executable files will be directly executed by high-privilege processes, allowing low-privilege users to have the opportunity to elevate their privileges to NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
After the application opened the PDF, JavaScript deleted the form field object. Subsequently, it attempted to access the invalid object, which caused the application to crash.
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
When the application opens a PDF and JavaScript modifies the properties of form fields, it causes the state of the underlying objects referenced by the program to become invalid. Eventually, it reads an illegal memory address, which leads to the crash of the a
- 7.8 High severity
Foxit PDF Editor: Use After Free
When the application opens a PDF file, JavaScript uses the damaged field tree to trigger field traversal, resulting in the program holding an invalid form object when accessing the field property path. Eventually, the application crashes due to reading an inva