🛡️ CVE-2022-42408
🟡 CVSS 5.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-416 NVD
5.5
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of PDF-XChange Editor. 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 EMF files. The issue results from the lack of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations on the 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-18543.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-416
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-01-26
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-27
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
pdf-xchange-editor — 9.5.366.0

References

Press/Media Coverage, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-1366/
Press/Media Coverage, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry https://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-22-1366/

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