The vulnerability exists within an RPC interface listening on TCP port 6000, exposed by Foxit PhantomPDF. The CombineFiles method of the Creator object does not properly validate the DestPDFFile 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 vulnerability to achieve remote code execution.
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