Foxit Reader 9.0.1.5096 PDF Document information disclosure

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Foxit Reader 9.0.1.5096. Impacted is an unknown function. This manipulation as part of PDF Document causes information disclosure. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2018-14289. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability has been found in Foxit Reader 9.0.1.5096 (Document Reader Software) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code. The manipulation as part of a PDF Document 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 vulnerable installations of Foxit Reader 9.0.1.5096. 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 parsing of PDF documents. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of user-supplied data, which can result in 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-6221.

The bug was discovered 07/19/2018. The weakness was presented 07/31/2018 (Website). The advisory is shared at foxitsoftware.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2018-14289 since 07/16/2018. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1592 for this issue.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 12 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

See VDB-82783, VDB-82784, VDB-82785 and VDB-82786 for similar entries. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Document Reader Software

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• Foxit

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• Reader

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• 9.0.1.5096

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• free

Website

• Vendor: https://www.foxitsoftware.com/

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