CVE-2018-20314 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Foxit Reader before version 9.5 and PhantomPDF before versions 8.3.10 and 9.5. It involves a race condition in the proxyCheckLicence function, leading to either a stack-based buffer overflow or an out-of-bounds read. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.1, indicating a high potential impact with complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. The attack complexity is high, but it can be exploited remotely without user interaction. There is currently no public exploit code available, nor is there evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 8.3.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:foxitsoftware:phantompdf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 9.0, < 9.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:foxitsoftware:phantompdf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 9.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:foxitsoftware:reader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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