EIP-2019-0007

The vulnerability exists within an RPC interface listening on TCP port 6000, exposed by Foxit PhantomPDF. The ConvertToPDF method of the Creator object does not properly validate the bstrDestPathName argument, allowing arbitrary files to be written under the context of the user running PhantomPDF. An attacker can create a specially crafted PDF file that will abuse this vulner- ability to achieve remote code execution.

Vulnerability Identifiers

• Exodus Intelligence: EIP-2019-0007
• MITRE CVE: Pending

Vulnerability Metrics

• CVSS Score: 7.5

Vendor References

• https://www.foxit.com/support/security-bulletins.html

Discovery Credit

• Exodus Intelligence

Disclosure Timeline

• Disclosed to affected vendors: February 24th, 2021
• Disclosed to public: July 27th, 2021

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