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

EPSS: 0.013 (66.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Foxitsoftware Foxit_reader
Foxitsoftware Phantompdf
Microsoft Windows
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-787 — Out-of-bounds Write

References

cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, 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.