Medium severity · published Oct 11, 2019
CVE-2019-17497
Tracker PDF-XChange Editor before 8.0.330.0 has an NTLM SSO hash theft vulnerability using crafted FDF or XFDF files (a related issue to CVE-2018-4993)
6.5
CVSS
6.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Tracker PDF-XChange Editor before 8.0.330.0 has an NTLM SSO hash theft vulnerability using crafted FDF or XFDF files (a related issue to CVE-2018-4993). For example, an NTLM hash is sent for a link to \\192.168.0.2\C$\file.pdf without user interaction.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)6.3% · higher than 94% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PE
Pdf-xchange Editor · Pdf-xchange
before 8.0.330.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-17497
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-17497
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ponypot/cve/raw/master/pdfXChangeEditor_FDFInclusions.pdf
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