{"id":"CVE-2020-26540","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2020-26540","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:28:18.912Z","title":"Because the Hardened Runtime protection mechanism is not applied to code signing, code injection (or an information leak) can occur.","description":"An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 4.1 on macOS. Because the Hardened Runtime protection mechanism is not applied to code signing, code injection (or an information leak) can occur.","published":"2020-10-02T08:15:13.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T03:08:10.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-347"],"affected":["foxitsoftware/foxit reader","foxitsoftware/phantompdf"],"epss":{"score":0.00666,"percentile":0.51566,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"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 (0.67%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.html","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.html","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26540","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."}