Out-of-bounds Read in Foxitsoftware Foxit Reader
CVE-2019-5007
An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 9.4 on Windows. It is an Out-of-Bounds Read Information Disclosure and crash due to a NULL pointer dereference when reading TIFF data during TIFF parsing.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
EPSS: 0.016 (72.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Foxitsoftware Foxit_reader
- Foxitsoftware Phantompdf
- Microsoft Windows
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Patch, Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2019-5007?
- CVE-2019-5007 is a high-severity vulnerability in Foxitsoftware Foxit Reader, classified under Out-of-bounds Read. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2019-01-03.
- How severe is CVE-2019-5007?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2019-5007 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.