CVE-2020-11493

mediumpriority · track · 42OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.009 · 60 %ileexploit · PoCEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · PoC

Likely / severe?

0.93% (60th) EPSS

CVSS 5.8 · medium

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

In Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 10.0.1, and PhantomPDF before 9.7.3, attackers can obtain sensitive information about an uninitialized object because of direct transformation from PDF Object to Stream without concern for a crafted XObject.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.1

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5.8–8.1

v2.05.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 4.9

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.2

v3.17.7highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-345USprimary

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

fengjixuchui/CVE-2020-11493fengjixuchui/CVE-2020-11493PoC · poc_in_github

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
foxitsoftware phantompdf≤ 10.0.0.35798nvdUScpe:2.3:a:foxitsoftware:phantompdf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
foxitsoftware phantompdf≤ 9.7.2.29539nvdUScpe:2.3:a:foxitsoftware:phantompdf:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
foxitsoftware reader≤ 10.0.0.35798nvdUScpe:2.3:a:foxitsoftware:reader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-09-04modified 2026-06-17

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references (5)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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