CVE-2018-19448: Foxitsoftware Foxit PDF SDK Activex

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Foxit Reader SDK (ActiveX) Professional 5.4.0.1031, an uninitialized object in IReader_ContentProvider::GetDocEventHandler occurs when embedding the control into Office documents. By opening a specially crafted document, an attacker can trigger an out of bounds write condition, possibly leveraging this to gain remote code execution.

Affected products

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

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