CVE-2018-3945 is a high-severity use-after-free vulnerability in the JavaScript engine of Foxit PDF Reader and PhantomPDF versions 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. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, with low attack complexity and no required privileges. While no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) is available, it has received some community discussion and media coverage, though it is not currently on the CISA KEV catalog or considered actively exploited.
| 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.