CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2021-38566

Uncontrolled Recursion

Published: Aug 11, 2021 | Modified: Jul 12, 2022
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

An issue was discovered in Foxit PDF Reader before 11.0.1 and PDF Editor before 11.0.1. It allows stack consumption during recursive processing of embedded XML nodes.

Weakness

The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Pdf_editor Foxitsoftware * 11.0.1 (excluding)
Pdf_reader Foxitsoftware * 11.0.1 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References