CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2018-18688

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

Published: Jan 07, 2021 | Modified: Jan 14, 2021
CVSS 3.x
5.3
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

The Portable Document Format (PDF) specification does not provide any information regarding the concrete procedure of how to validate signatures. Consequently, an Incremental Saving vulnerability exists in multiple products. When an attacker uses the Incremental Saving feature to add pages or annotations, Body Updates are displayed to the user without any action by the signature-validation logic. This affects Foxit Reader before 9.4 and PhantomPDF before 8.3.9 and 9.x before 9.4. It also affects LibreOffice, Master PDF Editor, Nitro Pro, Nitro Reader, Nuance Power PDF Standard, PDF Editor 6 Pro, PDFelement6 Pro, PDF Studio Viewer 2018, PDF Studio Pro, Perfect PDF 10 Premium, and Perfect PDF Reader.

Weakness

The product does not verify, or incorrectly verifies, the cryptographic signature for data.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Master_pdf_editor Code-industry 5.1.12 (including) 5.1.12 (including)
Master_pdf_editor Code-industry 5.1.68 (including) 5.1.68 (including)
Foxit_reader Foxitsoftware 9.4 (including) 9.4 (including)
Phantompdf Foxitsoftware 9.0 (including) 9.4 (excluding)
Phantompdf Foxitsoftware 8.3.9 (including) 8.3.9 (including)
Nitro_pro Gonitro 11.0.3.173 (including) 11.0.3.173 (including)
Nitro_reader Gonitro 5.5.9.2 (including) 5.5.9.2 (including)
Pdf_editor_6 Iskysoft 6.4.2.3521 (including) 6.4.2.3521 (including)
Pdfelement6 Iskysoft 6.8.0.3523 (including) 6.8.0.3523 (including)
Pdfelement6 Iskysoft 6.8.4.3921 (including) 6.8.4.3921 (including)
Libreoffice Libreoffice 6.0.6.2 (including) 6.0.6.2 (including)
Libreoffice Libreoffice 6.1.3.2 (including) 6.1.3.2 (including)
Power_pdf_standard Nuance 3.0.0.17 (including) 3.0.0.17 (including)
Power_pdf_standard Nuance 3.0.0.30 (including) 3.0.0.30 (including)
Power_pdf_standard Nuance 7.0 (including) 7.0 (including)
Pdf_studio Qoppa 12.0.7 (including) 12.0.7 (including)
Pdf_studio_viewer_2018 Qoppa 2018.0.1 (including) 2018.0.1 (including)
Pdf_studio_viewer_2018 Qoppa 2018.2.0 (including) 2018.2.0 (including)
Perfect_pdf_10 Soft-xpansion 10.0.0.1 (including) 10.0.0.1 (including)
Perfect_pdf_reader Soft-xpansion 13.0.3 (including) 13.0.3 (including)
Perfect_pdf_reader Soft-xpansion 13.1.5 (including) 13.1.5 (including)

References