CVE-2021-38573

9.8 CRITICAL

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10.1.4

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

Severity and scoring

CVSS: 9.8 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

Vendor	Product
foxitsoftware	foxit_reader, phantompdf

Description

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10.1.4. It allows writing to arbitrary files because a CombineFiles pathname is not validated.

Source: NVD

References

[NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38573
[Vendor advisory]https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php
[Vendor advisory]https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php

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