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CVE-2018-3940
HIGH · CVSS 8.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-10-08T16:29:02.553 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:58:04.850

Summary

An exploitable use-after-free vulnerability exists in the JavaScript engine of Foxit Software's PDF Reader, version 9.1.0.5096. A specially crafted PDF document can trigger a previously freed object in memory to be reused. An attacker needs to trick the user to open the malicious file to trigger.

Affected products

foxitsoftware — phantompdf

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References

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