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CVE-2022-42409

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-42409 is a sensitive information disclosure vulnerability affecting PDF-XChange Editor, stemming from a read past the end of an allocated buffer during PDF file parsing. Exploitation requires user interaction, where a victim must open a malicious PDF or visit a malicious page. Rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 5.5, this local attack could lead to high confidentiality impact and potentially arbitrary code execution when chained with other vulnerabilities. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 9.5.366.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pdf-xchange:pdf-xchange_editor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

3.3LOW

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 34th percentile among its peer group of 5,765 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

tracker-software.com / product/pdf-xchange-editor/history
Vendor Advisory
zerodayinitiative.com / advisories/ZDI-22-1340
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry