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Tracker / CVE-2023-38117

CVE-2023-38117

High 7.8

Foxit PDF Reader AcroForm Doc Object Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Foxit PDF Reader. 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 handling of Doc objects. 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-21293.

Affected products and versions

foxit pdf_editor · … → 10.1.12.37872
foxit pdf_editor · … → 11.1.4.1121
foxit pdf_editor · 11.0.0 → 11.2.6.53790
foxit pdf_editor · 12.0.0 → 12.1.2.15332
foxit pdf_editor · 12.0.0.0601 → 12.1.0.1229
foxit pdf_reader · … → 12.1.0.1229
foxit pdf_reader · … → 12.1.2.15332

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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