Medium severity · published Jan 3, 2019
CVE-2019-5005
An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 9.4 on Windows
5.5
CVSS
1.3%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 9.4 on Windows. They allowed Denial of Service (application crash) via image data, because two bytes are written to the end of the allocated memory without judging whether this will cause corruption.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.3% · higher than 70% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FR
Foxit Reader · Foxitsoftware
before 9.4 · source: NVD
PH
Phantompdf · Foxitsoftware
before 9.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5005
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-5005
Patch
https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php
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