CVE-2016-8877: Foxitsoftware Phantompdf

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap buffer overflow (Out-of-Bounds write) vulnerability in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 8.1 on Windows allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted JPEG2000 image embedded in a PDF document, aka a "corrupted suffix pattern" issue.

Affected products

• Foxitsoftware Phantompdf: up to and including 8.0.5
• Foxitsoftware Reader: up to and including 8.0.5

Published 2016-10-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.