Foxit Reader before 9.5, and PhantomPDF before 8.3.10 and 9.x before 9.5, has a proxyDoAction race condition that can cause a stack-based b…

published 2021-01-07 5 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-12870

cvss: 8.1; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.9%; EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits: 0; none known

Foxit Reader before 9.5, and PhantomPDF before 8.3.10 and 9.x before 9.5, has a proxyDoAction race condition that can cause a stack-based buffer overflow or an out-of-bounds read.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2

foxitsoftware phantompdf 8.3.10, 9.5
foxitsoftware reader 9.5

Exploit prediction

0.87% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.1	8.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD	2.0	6.8	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read
CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization
CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write

References

foxitsoftware.com /support/security-bulletins.php
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2018-20310
NVD CVE-2018-20310

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Summary