CVE-2015-8843

high

Published 2016-04-13 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

7.4

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.4

Description

The Foxit Cloud Update Service (FoxitCloudUpdateService) in Foxit Reader 6.1 through 6.2.x and 7.x before 7.2.2, when an update to the Cloud plugin is available, allows local users to gain privileges by writing crafted data to a shared memory region, which triggers memory corruption.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

72%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
foxitsoftware	foxit_reader	`6.1`
foxitsoftware	foxit_reader	`6.1.2`
foxitsoftware	foxit_reader	`6.1.4`
foxitsoftware	foxit_reader	`6.2`
foxitsoftware	foxit_reader	`6.2.1`
foxitsoftware	foxit_reader	`7.0`
foxitsoftware	foxit_reader	`7.0.1`
foxitsoftware	foxit_reader	`7.0.6`
foxitsoftware	foxit_reader	`7.1.5`
foxitsoftware	foxit_reader	`7.2`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.