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Tracker / CVE-2019-6769

CVE-2019-6769

High 7.8

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Foxit Reader 9.4.1.16828. 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 removeField method when processing AcroForms. The issue results from the lack of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations on the object. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-8165.

Affected products and versions

foxitsoftware foxit_reader · … → 9.4.1.16828
foxitsoftware phantompdf · … → 8.3.9.41099
foxitsoftware phantompdf · 9.0.0 → 9.4.1.16828

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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