CVE-2018-20315
Published: 07 January 2021
Summary
CVE-2018-20315 is a high-severity Race Condition (CWE-362) vulnerability in Foxitsoftware Phantompdf. Its CVSS base score is 8.1 (High).
Operationally, ranked at the 7.9th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2018-12875
Vulnerability details
Foxit Reader before 9.5, and PhantomPDF before 8.3.10 and 9.x before 9.5, has a race condition that can cause a stack-based buffer overflow or an out-of-bounds read.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Accurate timestamps from internal clocks enable detection of race conditions by providing reliable event ordering in audit logs.
Coordination of concurrent security activities reduces the probability that shared resources will be accessed simultaneously without proper synchronization.