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Foxit Reader: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (CVE-2019-8342)

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Foxit Reader: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource (CVE-2019-8342)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/13/2019
Created
02/01/2020
Added
01/24/2020
Modified
08/26/2020

Description

A Local Privilege Escalation in libqcocoa.dylib in Foxit Reader 3.1.0.0111 on macOS has been discovered due to an incorrect permission set.

Solution(s)

  • foxit-reader-upgrade-latest

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