SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2018-19452

A use after free in the TextBox field Mouse Enter action in IReader_ContentProvider can occur for specially crafted PDF files in Foxit Reader SDK (ActiveX) Professional 5.4.0.1031.

HIGH 7.8EPSS 2.90%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (2.90%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

A use after free in the TextBox field Mouse Enter action in IReader_ContentProvider can occur for specially crafted PDF files in Foxit Reader SDK (ActiveX) Professional 5.4.0.1031. An attacker can leverage this to gain remote code execution. Relative to CVE-2018-19444, this has a different free location and requires different JavaScript code for exploitation.

CVSS 3.0
7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
2.90% probability · 86th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-416
Affected
foxitsoftware/foxit pdf sdk activex
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.