CVE-2021-38572

9.8 criticalEPSS 1.1%

Critical (9.8) in foxitsoftware. EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

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

EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 66% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2021-08-11
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

foxitsoftware:foxit_reader
foxitsoftware:phantompdf

References

https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php
https://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security-bulletins.php

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