CVE-2018-18689 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2018-18689

The Portable Document Format (PDF) specification does not provide any...

Vulnerability Description

The Portable Document Format (PDF) specification does not provide any information regarding the concrete procedure of how to validate signatures. Consequently, a Signature Wrapping vulnerability exists in multiple products. An attacker can use /ByteRange and xref manipulations that are not detected by the signature-validation logic. This affects Foxit Reader before 9.4 and PhantomPDF before 8.3.9 and 9.x before 9.4. It also affects eXpert PDF 12 Ultimate, Expert PDF Reader, Nitro Pro, Nitro Reader, PDF Architect 6, PDF Editor 6 Pro, PDF Experte 9 Ultimate, PDFelement6 Pro, PDF Studio Viewer 2018, PDF Studio Pro, PDF-XChange Editor and Viewer, Perfect PDF 10 Premium, Perfect PDF Reader, Soda PDF, and Soda PDF Desktop.

Impact Analysis

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Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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References

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

expert pdf ultimate, pdf experte ultimate, foxit reader, nitro pro, nitro reader, pdf editor 6, pdfelement6, pdf-xchange editor, pdf architect, pdf studio, pdf studio viewer 2018, soda pdf, soda pdf desktop, perfect pdf 10, perfect pdf reader, pdf-xchange viewer, expert pdf reader
Vulnerable Versions:
12.0.20, 9.0.270, 9.1.0, 9.2.0.9297, 9.3.0.10826, 9.2.0, 11.0.3.173, 5.5.9.2, 6.4.2.3521, 6.6.2.3315, 6.7.6.3399, 6.8.0.3523, 6.8.4.3921, 6.7.1.3355, 7.0.237.1, 7.0.326, 6.0.37, 6.1.24.1862, 12.0.7, 2018.0.1, 2018.2.0, 9.3.17, 10.2.09, 10.2.16.1217, 10.0.0.1, 13.0.3, 13.1.5, 2.5, 9.0.180

Timeline

Official Publish: January 7th, 2021
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.