CVE-2018-19444: Foxitsoftware Foxit PDF SDK Activex

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A use after free in the TextBox field Validate action in IReader_ContentProvider can occur for specially crafted PDF files in Foxit Reader SDK (ActiveX) Professional 5.4.0.1031. An attacker can leverage this to gain remote code execution. Relative to CVE-2018-19452, this has a different free location and requires different JavaScript code for exploitation.

Affected products

• Foxitsoftware Foxit PDF SDK Activex: up to and including 5.5.0

Published 2019-06-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.