CVE-2016-8877 is a high-severity heap buffer overflow vulnerability affecting Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF versions prior to 8.1 on Windows. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by embedding a specially crafted JPEG2000 image within a PDF document. With a CVSS score of 8.8, successful exploitation requires user interaction (opening the malicious PDF) but can lead to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its high severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 8.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:foxitsoftware:phantompdf:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:* | ||
<= 8.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:foxitsoftware:reader:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.