CVE-2017-14458 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in the JavaScript engine of Foxit PDF Reader, specifically version 8.3.2.25013. This flaw allows an attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF document or visiting a malicious website if the browser plugin is enabled. With a CVSS score of 8.8, the vulnerability has a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring user interaction but with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is available, though it has received some community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.3.2.25013CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:foxit:pdf_reader:8.3.2.25013:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
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.