CVE-2022-43641: Foxit PDF Editor

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to disclose sensitive information on affected installations of Foxit PDF Reader 12.0.1.12430. 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 parsing of U3D files. The issue results from the lack of validating the existence of an object prior to performing operations on the object. An attacker can leverage this in conjunction with other vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-18894.

Affected products

• Foxit PDF Editor: before 10.1.10 (fixed in 10.1.10); from 11.0.0, before 11.2.4 (fixed in 11.2.4); from 12.0.0.12394, before 12.0.2 (fixed in 12.0.2)
• Foxit PDF Reader: before 12.0.2 (fixed in 12.0.2)

Published 2023-03-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.