CVE-2021-38568 is a critical memory corruption vulnerability affecting Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF versions prior to 10.1.4, occurring during PDF document conversion. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability over the network with low attack complexity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or KEV listing, the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, indicating awareness among researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 10.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:foxitsoftware:foxit_reader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 10.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:foxitsoftware:phantompdf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.