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Foxit Reader: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts (CVE-2020-13805)

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Foxit Reader: Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts (CVE-2020-13805)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
06/04/2020
Created
06/08/2020
Added
06/08/2020
Modified
06/08/2020

Description

An issue was discovered in Foxit Reader and PhantomPDF before 9.7.2. It has brute-force attack mishandling because the CAS service lacks a limit on login failures.

Solution(s)

  • foxit-reader-upgrade-9_7_2

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