NVD
- Id
- 22221
- Name
- CVE-2016-8856
- Description
- Foxit Reader for Mac 2.1.0.0804 and earlier and Foxit Reader for Linux 2.1.0.0805 and earlier suffered from a vulnerability where weak file permissions could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. After the installation, Foxit Reader"s core files were world-writable by default, allowing an attacker to overwrite them with backdoor code, which when executed by privileged user would result in Privilege Escalation, Code Execution, or both.
- Reject
- CVSS Version
- 2
- CVSS Score
- 4.6
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS Base Score
- 4.6
- CVSS Impact Subscore
- 6.4
- CVSS Exploit Subscore
- 3.9
- CVSS Vector
- (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
- Pub Date
- 2017-01-19
- Published
- 2016-10-31
- Modified Date
- 2016-11-29
- Seq
- 2016-8856