VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2010-1239

critical
Published 2010-04-05 · Modified 2026-04-29
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
10.0

Description

Foxit Reader before 3.2.1.0401 allows remote attackers to (1) execute arbitrary local programs via a certain "/Type /Action /S /Launch" sequence, and (2) execute arbitrary programs embedded in a PDF document via an unspecified "/Launch /Action" sequence, a related issue to CVE-2009-0836.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-11987 local windows verified
Didier Stevens · 2010-03-31

Adobe Reader - Escape From '.PDF' Execute Embedded Executable

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
foxitsoftwarefoxit_reader{"endIncluding":"3.2.0.0303"}
foxitsoftwarefoxit_reader2.3
foxitsoftwarefoxit_reader3.0
foxitsoftwarefoxit_reader3.1.0.0824
foxitsoftwarefoxit_reader3.1.1.0901
foxitsoftwarefoxit_reader3.1.1.0928
foxitsoftwarefoxit_reader3.1.3.1030

References

CWEs

CWE-94

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

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