CVE-2018-21244: Foxitsoftware Phantompdf

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was discovered in Foxit PhantomPDF before 8.3.6. It allows arbitrary application execution via an embedded executable file in a PDF portfolio, aka FG-VD-18-029.

Affected products

• Foxitsoftware Phantompdf: before 8.3.6 (fixed in 8.3.6)

Published 2020-06-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.