CVE-2009-0836 (GCVE-0-2009-0836)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-03-10 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 04:48
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Foxit Reader 2.3 before Build 3902 and 3.0 before Build 1506, including 1120 and 1301, does not require user confirmation before performing dangerous actions defined in a PDF file, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs and have unspecified other impact via a crafted file, as demonstrated by the "Open/Execute a file" action.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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|---|---|
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/501623/100… | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/34036 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/0634 | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1021824 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34035 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://blog.zoller.lu/2009/03/remote-code-executi… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.coresecurity.com/content/foxit-reader-… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/security.… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2009-03-09 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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