The application does not validate the presence of required appearance (AP) data before accessing stamp annotation resources. When a PDF contains a stamp annotation missing its AP entry, the code continues to dereference the associated object without a prior null or validity check, which allows a crafted document to trigger a null pointer dereference and crash the application, resulting in denial of service.
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Description The application does not validate the presence of required appearance (AP) data before accessing stamp annotation resources. When a PDF contains a stamp annotation missing its AP entry, the code continues to dereference the associated object without a prior null or validity check, which allows a crafted document to trigger a null pointer dereference and crash the application, resulting in denial of service.
Title Null pointer dereference in Foxit PDF Editor/Reader when accessing stamp annotation
Weaknesses CWE-476
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 5.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Foxit

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-01T01:40:35.260Z

Reserved: 2026-03-08T03:43:23.264Z

Link: CVE-2026-3776

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-01T02:16:02.590

Modified: 2026-04-01T02:16:02.590

Link: CVE-2026-3776

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