CVE-2021-38573

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 a CombineFiles 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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