PT-2019-17433

CVE-2019-5047

Published

2019-10-09

Updated

2022-06-27

Description by

CVSS 3.1

7.8

High

MetricsAV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NitroPDF (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to a Use After Free vulnerability in the CharProcs parsing functionality. It can be triggered by a specially crafted PDF, causing a type confusion that results in a Use After Free. An attacker can exploit this by crafting a malicious PDF.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploitability

Exploit

Impacts

Researchers

Aleksander Nikolic

Cory Duplantis

Vendors

Affected products

Weakness enumeration

CWE-416: Use After Free

CWE-843: Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type (\'Type Confusion\')