Attacker Value
Unknown
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Exploitability
Unknown
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User Interaction
None
Privileges Required
None
Attack Vector
Network
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CVE-2018-18689

Disclosure Date: January 07, 2021
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Description

The Portable Document Format (PDF) specification does not provide any information regarding the concrete procedure of how to validate signatures. Consequently, a Signature Wrapping vulnerability exists in multiple products. An attacker can use /ByteRange and xref manipulations that are not detected by the signature-validation logic. This affects Foxit Reader before 9.4 and PhantomPDF before 8.3.9 and 9.x before 9.4. It also affects eXpert PDF 12 Ultimate, Expert PDF Reader, Nitro Pro, Nitro Reader, PDF Architect 6, PDF Editor 6 Pro, PDF Experte 9 Ultimate, PDFelement6 Pro, PDF Studio Viewer 2018, PDF Studio Pro, PDF-XChange Editor and Viewer, Perfect PDF 10 Premium, Perfect PDF Reader, Soda PDF, and Soda PDF Desktop.

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CVSS V3 Severity and Metrics
Base Score:
5.3 Medium
Impact Score:
1.4
Exploitability Score:
3.9
Vector:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack Vector (AV):
Network
Attack Complexity (AC):
Low
Privileges Required (PR):
None
User Interaction (UI):
None
Scope (S):
Unchanged
Confidentiality (C):
Low
Integrity (I):
None
Availability (A):
None

General Information

Vendors

  • avanquest,
  • foxitsoftware,
  • gonitro,
  • iskysoft,
  • pdfforge,
  • qoppa,
  • sodapdf,
  • soft-xpansion,
  • tracker-software,
  • visagesoft

Products

  • expert pdf reader 9.0.180,
  • expert pdf ultimate 12.0.20,
  • foxit reader 9.1.0,
  • foxit reader 9.2.0,
  • foxit reader 9.2.0.9297,
  • foxit reader 9.3.0.10826,
  • nitro pro 11.0.3.173,
  • nitro reader 5.5.9.2,
  • pdf architect 6.0.37,
  • pdf architect 6.1.24.1862,
  • pdf editor 6 6.4.2.3521,
  • pdf editor 6 6.6.2.3315,
  • pdf editor 6 6.7.6.3399,
  • pdf experte ultimate 9.0.270,
  • pdf studio 12.0.7,
  • pdf studio viewer 2018 2018.0.1,
  • pdf studio viewer 2018 2018.2.0,
  • pdf-xchange editor 7.0.237.1,
  • pdf-xchange editor 7.0.326,
  • pdf-xchange viewer 2.5,
  • pdfelement6 6.7.1.3355,
  • pdfelement6 6.7.6.3399,
  • pdfelement6 6.8.0.3523,
  • pdfelement6 6.8.4.3921,
  • perfect pdf 10 10.0.0.1,
  • perfect pdf reader 13.0.3,
  • perfect pdf reader 13.1.5,
  • soda pdf 9.3.17,
  • soda pdf desktop 10.2.09,
  • soda pdf desktop 10.2.16.1217

Additional Info

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