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Tracker / CVE-2022-43640

CVE-2022-43640

Medium 5.5

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Foxit PDF Reader 12.0.1.12430. 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-18629.

Affected products and versions

foxit pdf_editor · … → 10.1.10
foxit pdf_editor · 11.0.0 → 11.2.4
foxit pdf_editor · 12.0.0.12394 → 12.0.2
foxit pdf_reader · … → 12.0.2

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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