5.3
CVSSv3

CVE-2018-18688

Published: 07/01/2021 Updated: 14/01/2021
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.3 | Impact Score: 1.4 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

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 prior to 9.4 and PhantomPDF prior to 8.3.9 and 9.x prior to 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.

Vulnerability Trend

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code-industry master_pdf_editor 5.1.12

code-industry master_pdf_editor 5.1.68

foxitsoftware foxit_reader 9.4

foxitsoftware phantompdf 8.3.9

foxitsoftware phantompdf

gonitro nitro_pro 11.0.3.173

gonitro nitro_reader 5.5.9.2

iskysoft pdf_editor_6 6.4.2.3521

iskysoft pdfelement6 6.8.0.3523

iskysoft pdfelement6 6.8.4.3921

libreoffice libreoffice 6.0.6.2

libreoffice libreoffice 6.1.3.2

nuance power_pdf_standard 3.0.0.17

nuance power_pdf_standard 3.0.0.30

nuance power_pdf_standard 7.0

qoppa pdf_studio 12.0.7

qoppa pdf_studio_viewer_2018 2018.0.1

qoppa pdf_studio_viewer_2018 2018.2.0

soft-xpansion perfect_pdf_10 10.0.0.1

soft-xpansion perfect_pdf_reader 13.0.3

soft-xpansion perfect_pdf_reader 13.1.5

foxitsoftware foxit_reader 9.1.0

foxitsoftware foxit_reader 9.2.0

code-industry master_pdf_editor 5.1.24

iskysoft pdf_editor_6 6.6.2.3315

iskysoft pdf_editor_6 6.7.6.3399

iskysoft pdfelement6 6.7.1.3355

iskysoft pdfelement6 6.7.6.3399

libreoffice libreoffice 6.1.0.3