Cloudanix VulnDB

CVE-2020-17417

High · 7.8

CVSS

7.8

EPSS

12.4%

Published

Oct 13, 2020

CISA due date

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The record

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Foxit Reader 10.0.1.35811. 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 the Annotation 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-11657.

Affected packages

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