Foxit PhantomPDF < 10.1.7 Multiple Vulnerabilities

critical Nessus Plugin ID 158564

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Synopsis

A PDF toolkit installed on the remote Windows host is affected by multiple vulnerabilities

Description

According to its version, the Foxit PhantomPDF application (formally known as Phantom) installed on the remote Windows host is prior to 10.1.7. It is, therefore affected by multiple vulnerabilities:

- Acrobat Reader DC version 21.007.20099 (and earlier), 20.004.30017 (and earlier) and 17.011.30204 (and earlier) are affected by a heap overflow vulnerability due to insecure handling of a crafted file, potentially resulting in arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2021-44708, CVE-2021-44709)

- Acrobat Reader DC version 21.007.20099 (and earlier), 20.004.30017 (and earlier) and 17.011.30204 (and earlier) are affected by a Null pointer dereference vulnerability when parsing a specially crafted file.
An unauthenticated attacker could leverage this vulnerability to achieve an application denial-of-service in the context of the current user. Exploitation of this issue requires user interaction in that a victim must open a malicious file. (CVE-2021-44740, CVE-2021-44741)

- Foxit PDF Reader before 11.2.1 and Foxit PDF Editor before 11.2.1 have an Uncontrolled Search Path Element for DLL files. (CVE-2022-24955)

- This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Foxit PDF Reader 11.1.0.52543. 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 handling of Doc objects. By performing actions in JavaScript, an attacker can trigger a read past the end of an allocated buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process.
Was ZDI-CAN-15703. (CVE-2022-24358)

- This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Foxit PDF Reader 11.1.0.52543. 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 handling of Doc objects. 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 vulnerability to execute code in the context of the current process. Was ZDI-CAN-15702. (CVE-2022-24359)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Foxit PhantomPDF version 10.1.7 or later

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 158564

File Name: foxit_phantom_10_1_7.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 3/3/2022

Updated: 10/9/2023

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-44709

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-24955

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:foxitsoftware:phantom, cpe:/a:foxitsoftware:phantompdf

Required KB Items: installed_sw/FoxitPhantomPDF, SMB/Registry/Enumerated

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/3/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/11/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-1285, CVE-2021-40420, CVE-2021-44708, CVE-2021-44709, CVE-2021-44740, CVE-2021-44741, CVE-2022-22150, CVE-2022-24357, CVE-2022-24358, CVE-2022-24359, CVE-2022-24360, CVE-2022-24361, CVE-2022-24362, CVE-2022-24363, CVE-2022-24364, CVE-2022-24365, CVE-2022-24366, CVE-2022-24367, CVE-2022-24368, CVE-2022-24369, CVE-2022-24907, CVE-2022-24908, CVE-2022-24954, CVE-2022-24955, CVE-2022-24971, CVE-2022-25108

IAVA: 2022-A-0013-S, 2022-A-0091-S

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