CVE-2024-9251

Summary

CVE-2024-9251 is a newly disclosed vulnerability affecting Foxit PDF Reader. This issue, classified as an Information Disclosure vulnerability, enables remote attackers to expose sensitive data. The flaw lies in the Annotation handling component, which fails to validate the existence of an object before executing operations. As a result, an attacker can craft a malicious page or file to trick users into disclosing sensitive information. While this vulnerability does not directly allow code execution, it can be combined with other vulnerabilities for more severe attacks.

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