High severity · published Oct 2, 2020
CVE-2020-26540
An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 4.1 on macOS
7.5
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.7% · higher than 52% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FR
Foxit Reader · Foxitsoftware
before 4.1 · source: NVD
PH
Phantompdf · Foxitsoftware
before 4.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-26540
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-26540
Patch
https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.html
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