🛡️ CVE-2023-38113
🟢 CVSS 3.3 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-416 NVD
3.3
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Foxit PDF Reader Annotation Use-After-Free Information Disclosure Vulnerability. This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Foxit PDF Reader. 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. 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-21083.

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 3.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-416
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-05-03
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2025-08-12
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
pdf-editor 12.0.0.0601 12.1.0.1229
pdf-reader 12.1.0.1229

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