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Foxit Reader: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity (CVE-2020-11493)

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Foxit Reader: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity (CVE-2020-11493)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/04/2020
Created
09/12/2020
Added
09/11/2020
Modified
09/11/2020

Description

In Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10.0.1, and PhantomPDF before 9.7.3, attackers can obtain sensitive information about an uninitialized object because of direct transformation from PDF Object to Stream without concern for a crafted XObject.

Solution(s)

  • foxit-reader-upgrade-latest

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