CVE-2018-3942 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in Foxit PDF Reader and PhantomPDF, specifically affecting version 9.1.0.5096. This flaw allows an attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution by tricking a user into opening a specially crafted PDF document. 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. While no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is readily available and it's not listed on the KEV catalog, there has been limited community discussion and media coverage, indicating some awareness.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 9.2.0.9297CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:foxitsoftware:phantompdf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 9.2.0.9297CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:foxitsoftware:reader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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.