CVE-2015-2790
Foxit Reader, Enterprise Reader, and PhantomPDF before 7.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 24.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.1% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 2Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Foxit Reader, Enterprise Reader, and PhantomPDF before 7.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and crash) via a crafted (1) Ubyte Size in a DataSubBlock structure or (2) LZWMinimumCodeSize in a GIF image.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 2 Exploit-DB entries for it. 2 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Foxit Products GIF Conversion - 'LZWMinimumCodeSize' Memory Corruption (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36334dos, windowspublished 11 Mar 2015Not verified
- Foxit Products GIF Conversion - 'DataSubBlock' Memory Corruption (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 36335dos, windowspublished 11 Mar 2015Not verified
References tagged exploit2 references
- 36334 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 36335 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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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Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 24.5% · top 2.1% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- http://protekresearchlab.com/prl-2015-01prl-foxit-products-gif-conversion-memory-corruption-vulnerabilities-lzwminimumcodesize/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1031878 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 73430 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 119303 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security_bulletins.php#FRD-23 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1031877 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 119302 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://www.foxitsoftware.com/support/security_bulletins.php#FRD-24 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 36334 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 36335 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- http://protekresearchlab.com/PRL-2015-02/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
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-2015-2879 (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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