{"id":"CVE-2018-14295","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-14295","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T01:55:10.025Z","title":"This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Foxit PhantomPDF Phantom PDF 9.1.5096.","description":"This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Foxit PhantomPDF Phantom PDF 9.1.5096. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of PDF documents. When parsing shading patterns, the process does not properly validate user-supplied data, which can result in an integer overflow before allocating a buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-6223.","published":"2018-07-31T20:29:03.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:40:45.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"zdi-disclosures@trendmicro.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-190"],"affected":["foxitsoftware/foxit reader","foxitsoftware/phantompdf"],"epss":{"score":0.08784,"percentile":0.95149,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[{"date":"2026-09-21","score":0.0255,"percentile":0.84257},{"date":"2026-09-22","score":0.08895,"percentile":0.94991}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (8.78%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"epss","label":"EPSS jump","at":"2026-09-22T00:00:00.000Z","detail":{"to":0.08895,"from":0.0255,"percentile":0.94991},"summary":"EPSS moved from 2.5% to 8.9% probability of exploitation in the next thirty days."}],"references":[{"url":"https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"zdi-disclosures@trendmicro.com"},{"url":"https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-755","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"zdi-disclosures@trendmicro.com"},{"url":"https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-755","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14295","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}