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High 7.5Published Oct 2, 2020

CVE-2020-26540An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 4.1 on macOS.

Updated under an hour ago ()

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 4.1 on macOS. Because the Hardened Runtime protection mechanism is not applied to code signing, code injection (or an information leak) can occur.

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CVSS
7.5 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-347
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Not given
NVD analysis
Modified
Record last updated
Jun 16, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Nov 1, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
foxitsoftware foxit_reader
foxitsoftware:foxit_reader
before 4.1
NVD
foxitsoftware phantompdf
foxitsoftware:phantompdf
before 4.1
NVD

References

References

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