Unit 42 Discovers Vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat and Reader and Foxit Reader, Shares Threat Research at Microsoft Blue Hat Shanghai 2019
Summary: Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers discovered 28 new vulnerabilities in Adobe products, addressed in Adobe's May Security Bulletin APSB19-18, including 19 rated Critical and 9 rated Important. The same researchers also found five Foxit Reader vulnerabilities addressed in Foxit Software's recent security updates, and two Unit 42 papers on container security were accepted for Microsoft BlueHat Shanghai 2019.
Bottom line: These are flaws in PDF readers that sit on knowledge workers' desktops across enterprise, government, and service provider networks, and the source notes weaponized exploits for such vulnerabilities are what Traps and IPS protections exist to block.
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