CVE-2020-26537
An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10.1. In a certain Shading...
An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10.1. In a certain Shading calculation, the number of outputs is unequal to the number of color components in a color space. This causes an out-of-bounds write.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10.1. In a certain Shading calculation, the number of outputs is unequal to the number of color components in a color space. This causes an out-of-bounds write.
- Record
CVE-2020-26537- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 Critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 7.5 High
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P - Weakness
- CWE-787
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10.1. In a certain Shading calculation, the number of outputs is unequal to the number of color components in a color space. This causes an out-of-bounds write.
- Record
CVE-2020-26537- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2020-19082 No score
An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10.1. In a certain Shading calculation, the number of outputs is unequal to the number of color components in a color space. This causes an out-of-bounds write.
- Record
EUVD-2020-19082- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-8rxc-f424-vw5f No score
An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10.1. In a certain Shading...
An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10.1. In a certain Shading calculation, the number of outputs is unequal to the number of color components in a color space. This causes an out-of-bounds write.
- Record
GHSA-8rxc-f424-vw5f- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| facts | ||
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2020-26537 is a critical vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in Foxitsoftware Foxit Reader, published October 2, 2020. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.15%, the 67th percentile. No source names a fixed version.