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CVE-2021-38566

7.5 HIGH

An issue was discovered in Foxit PDF Reader before 11.0.1 and PDF Editor before 11.0.1

Published: 2021-08-11 · Last updated: 2026-06-17

Severity and scoring

CVSS
7.5 HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
CWE-674

Affected products

VendorProduct
foxitsoftwarepdf_editor, pdf_reader

Description

An issue was discovered in Foxit PDF Reader before 11.0.1 and PDF Editor before 11.0.1. It allows stack consumption during recursive processing of embedded XML nodes.

Source: NVD

References

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