Foxit PhantomPDF Multiple Vulnerabilities (Nov 2018) - Windows
🗓️ 12 Nov 2018 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 50 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF for Windows Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability | 17 Oct 201800:00 | – | cnvd | |
| Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF for Windows Buffer Overflow Vulnerability | 17 Oct 201800:00 | – | cnvd | |
| Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF for Windows Memory Misreference Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-22408) | 17 Oct 201800:00 | – | cnvd | |
| Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF for Windows out-of-bounds write vulnerability (CNVD-2018-23222) | 17 Oct 201800:00 | – | cnvd | |
| Foxit Reader and Foxit PhantomPDF for Windows Out-of-Bounds Read Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-23228) | 17 Oct 201800:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2018-17691 | 24 Jan 201904:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2018-17692 | 24 Jan 201904:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2018-17693 | 24 Jan 201904:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2018-17700 | 24 Jan 201904:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2018-17701 | 24 Jan 201904:00 | – | cve |
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| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| foxitsoftware | www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php |
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:foxitsoftware:phantompdf";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.814156");
script_version("2025-09-19T15:40:40+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2018-17706", "CVE-2018-17691", "CVE-2018-17692", "CVE-2018-17693",
"CVE-2018-17700", "CVE-2018-17701");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.8");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-19 15:40:40 +0000 (Fri, 19 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2019-10-09 23:36:00 +0000 (Wed, 09 Oct 2019)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2018-11-12 13:41:54 +0530 (Mon, 12 Nov 2018)");
script_name("Foxit PhantomPDF Multiple Vulnerabilities (Nov 2018) - Windows");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Foxit PhantomPDF is prone to multiple vulnerabilities.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present
on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"Multiple flaws exist:
- within the conversion of HTML files to PDF. The issue results from the lack
of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations
on the object.
- The specific flaw exists within the handling of Array.prototype.concat.
The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data,
which can result in a read past the end of an allocated object.
- The specific flaw exists within fxhtml2pdf. The issue results from the
lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in a
memory access past the end of an allocated buffer.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will allow
remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service
(use-after-free)");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Foxit PhantomPDF version before 8.3.8 on windows.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Foxit PhantomPDF version 8.3.8
or later. Please see the references for more information.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"registry");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2018 Greenbone AG");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("General");
script_dependencies("gb_foxit_phantom_reader_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("foxit/phantompdf/ver");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if(!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe:CPE, exit_no_version:TRUE)) exit(0);
pdfVer = infos["version"];
pdfPath = infos["location"];
if(version_is_less(version:pdfVer, test_version:"8.3.8"))
{
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version:pdfVer, fixed_version:"8.3.8", install_path:pdfPath);
security_message(data:report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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19 Sep 2025 00:00Current
9.5High risk
Vulners AI Score9.5
CVSS 26.8
CVSS 38.8
EPSS0.03855