CVE-2016-8878: Foxitsoftware Phantompdf

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Out-of-Bounds read vulnerability in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 8.1 on Windows, when the gflags app is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted BMP image embedded in the XFA stream in a PDF document, aka "Data from Faulting Address may be used as a return value starting at FOXITREADER."

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.