CVE-2018-5675: Foxitsoftware Phantompdf

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 3.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Foxit Reader before 9.1 and PhantomPDF before 9.1. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The specific flaw exists within the processing of specially crafted pdf files with embedded u3d images. Crafted data in the PDF file can trigger an out-of-bounds write on a buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the current process.

Affected products

• Foxitsoftware Phantompdf: up to and including 9.0.1.1049
• Foxitsoftware Reader: up to and including 9.0.1.1049

Published 2018-05-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.