CVE-2018-21240

HIGH 7.5CVE-2018-21240 · Published 04/06/2020 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-21240 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting phantompdf (foxitsoftware), reader (foxitsoftware).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.0%, higher than 64.1% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 9.2 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
phantompdf foxitsoftware	`< 9.2`	`9.2`
reader foxitsoftware	`< 9.2`	`9.2`

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 9.2. It allows memory consumption via an ArrayBuffer(0xfffffffe) call.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

< 9.2

9.2

< 9.2

9.2

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