A vulnerability was found in Foxit PDF Reader 11.2.1.53537 (Document Reader Software). It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown function of the component Annotation Object Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Foxit PDF Reader 11.2.1.53537. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the handling of Annotation objects. By performing actions in JavaScript, an attacker can trigger a read past the end of an allocated object. An attacker can leverage this in conjunction with other vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-16777.

The weakness was disclosed 07/19/2022. It is possible to read the advisory at zerodayinitiative.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2022-34873 since 06/30/2022. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The entries VDB-180110, VDB-180111, VDB-193432 and VDB-193436 are pretty similar.

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• Document Reader Software

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• Foxit

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• PDF Reader

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• 11.2.1.53537

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• free

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