What is CVE-2019-5005?

CVE-2019-5005 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Foxitsoftware Foxit Reader, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-01-03.

How severe is CVE-2019-5005?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Foxitsoftware Foxit Reader

CVE-2019-5005

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 9.4 on Windows. They allowed Denial of Service (application crash) via image data, because two bytes are written to the end of the allocated memory without judging whether this will cause corruption.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published 2019-01-03 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (69.6th percentile), scored 2026-10-25.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 70th percentile — 69.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.013 · newest: 0.013 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php (Patch, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2019-5005?: CVE-2019-5005 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Foxitsoftware Foxit Reader, classified under Out-of-bounds Write. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2019-01-03.
How severe is CVE-2019-5005?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.