- 8.4HighCVSS base score
- 0.44%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 62% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Foxit PDF Reader before 4.2.0.0928 does not properly bound-check the /Title entry in the PDF Info dictionary. A specially crafted PDF with an overlong Title string can overflow a fixed-size stack buffer, corrupt the Structured Exception Handler (SEH) chain, and lead to arbitrary code execution in the context of the user who opens the file.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module for it. 4 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits5
Metasploit modules1 module
- Foxit PDF Reader v4.1.1 Title Stack Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/fileformat/foxit_title_bofRank greatdisclosed 13 Nov 2010
References tagged exploit4 references
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15532 (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16621 (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/foxit_title_bof.rb (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15514/ (opens in a new tab)exploit
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
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- 1 day later
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Published
- 9 months later
· 9 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulnCheckCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | High8.4 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | High8.4 | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.44% · top 62% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.4.
Affected products
Foxit Software · Foxit PDF Reader
- affected < 4.2.0.0928
References
References6
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15532 (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/16621 (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/master/modules/exploits/windows/fileformat/foxit_title_bof.rb (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/15514/ (opens in a new tab)exploit
- https://www.foxit.com/pdf-reader/version-history.html (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisorypatch
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/foxit-pdf-reader-title-stack-buffer-overflow (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisory
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2010-5306 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2010-20010)Record last updated .