CVE-2019-17497

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-10-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-522

Description

Tracker PDF-XChange Editor before 8.0.330.0 has an NTLM SSO hash theft vulnerability using crafted FDF or XFDF files (a related issue to CVE-2018-4993). For example, an NTLM hash is sent for a link to \\192.168.0.2\C$\file.pdf without user interaction.

Affected products

PDF-XChange Editor: before 8.0.330.0 — fixed in 8.0.330.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: PDF-XChange Editor 8.0.330.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/ponypot/cve/raw/master/pdfXChangeEditor_FDFInclusions.pdf
https://github.com/ponypot/cve/raw/master/pdfXChangeEditor_FDFInclusions.pdf

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