Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessDeliver crafted signed PDF to application
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DeliveryRadPdfProcessing validates the digital signature
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ExploitFlawed cryptographic signature and certificate check passes
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ExecutionForged content accepted as unmodified with valid signer
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ImpactDownstream trust decision made on fraudulent document
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A04:2025 - Cryptographic Failures
ASVS 5.0
V11 - Cryptography Signature verification
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| Exploitation Conditions | The target application must use Progress Telerik Document Processing Libraries' RadPdfProcessing (version prior to 2026.3.1027) to validate PDF digital signatures AND must rely on that validation result as a trust/authenticity decision. The attacker supplies a crafted signed PDF whose forged content is nonetheless reported as unmodified with a valid signing certificate. Limiting factors: the vulnerable code is only reached when the application actually performs signature verification via this library; applications that do not verify PDF signatures, or that do not act on the verification outcome, are not meaningfully exposed. Exploitation requires no authentication and no user interaction per the vendor vector, but does require that the attacker-controlled PDF reaches the validation routine. |
| Impact | This is a signature-validation bypass (CWE-347) rated CVSS 7.5 with an integrity-only impact profile (C:N/I:H/A:N). The vendor-supplied vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N describes a network-reachable, low-complexity, unauthenticated issue, which maps to the real mechanism reasonably well: the attacker simply supplies a crafted signed PDF and the vulnerable RadPdfProcessing code validates it. There is no availability or confidentiality loss - the danger is that forged content is reported as unmodified and its signing certificate as valid, defeating the trust guarantee the signature is supposed to provide. On the decision signals, the vuln.today priority is 'this_week' (not act_now/emergency); there is no CISA KEV listing, no EPSS score supplied, and no public PoC or exploit reference in the input, so there is no indication of active or imminent widespread exploitation. The realistic priority is therefore moderate-and-prompt rather than drop-everything: the practical impact is high only for deployments that actually rely on RadPdfProcessing signature verification as a security/trust control (e.g. validating contracts, invoices, or compliance documents). Note one nuance to verify: AV:N/PR:N/UI:N implies fully remote unauthenticated reach, but exploitation in practice requires the target application to ingest and validate an attacker-supplied PDF - how exposed that path is depends on the deployment, so treat 'network, no interaction' as best-case for the attacker rather than guaranteed for every integration. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker modifies the contents of a legitimately signed PDF (or crafts a new one) so that RadPdfProcessing's signature validation still reports the document as unmodified and the signing certificate as valid. A business application that accepts and verifies signed PDFs - for example an automated invoice, contract, or compliance-document pipeline - then treats the forged document as authentic and acts on it. No public exploit identified at time of analysis; the attack is low-complexity and needs no authentication or user interaction once a validation path is reachable. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 28, 2026
RadPdfProcessing, the PDF component of Progress Telerik Document Processing Libraries before version 2026.3.1027, performs improper verification of cryptographic signatures and improper certificate validation when validating signed PDFs. Per the vendor CVSS vector the flaw is remotely reachable without authentication or user interaction and yields an integrity-only impact (C:N/I:H/A:N, score 7.5), because a crafted signed PDF can make the library report forged content as unmodified and its signing certificate as valid. Exposure is limited to applications that actually call this library to verify PDF signatures and then act on the verification result as a trust decision; no public exploit code was identified at time of analysis and the issue is not in CISA KEV, though the vendor-published advisory places it on a this-week remediation cadence.
RemediationAI
Upgrade Progress Telerik Document Processing Libraries to version 2026.3.1027 or later, which is the fixed release named in the vendor advisory (https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/document-processing/knowledge-base/kb-security-improper-verification-of-cryptographic-signature-cve-2026-118040); the vendor-released patch is 2026.3.1027. Until the upgrade can be deployed, treat the RadPdfProcessing signature-validation verdict as an untrusted input rather than a trust decision: stop workflows that authorize payments, accept contracts, or grant access solely on the basis of that verdict, and instead re-verify any signed PDF with an independent validation path, accepting the trade-off of added latency and a second parsing stack in the pipeline. Where the business process permits, gate signed-PDF intake to known sender identities or a quarantined review queue so attacker-supplied documents do not reach the validation routine in production, recognizing that this reduces but does not remove exposure for documents that are legitimately accepted. Auditing historical validation results produced before the upgrade is advisable, because the defect can have made forged documents appear authentic.
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The root cause class is CWE-347, improper verification of cryptographic signatures, compounded by improper certificate validation. Telerik Document Processing Libraries is a suite of format libraries (including RadPdfProcessing for PDF) used inside .NET applications to import, process and export documents. The vulnerable code path sits in the PDF digital signature validation routine: instead of binding the verified signature to the actual byte ranges and digest of the document content, and instead of validating the signing certificate chain and trust, the routine can be induced to return a verdict of "unmodified content, valid signing certificate" for a crafted PDF. The weakness therefore affects the authenticity/integrity guarantee of the library's output rather than confidentiality or availability - the attacker's win is a false trust signal consumed by the host application. Reachability is application-dependent: the flaw is only exercised where the host application performs signature verification through RadPdfProcessing and treats the returned verdict as authoritative. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:progress_software:telerik_document_processing_libraries:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* covers all builds prior to 2026.3.1027, and the trigger preconditions beyond delivering an attacker-controlled PDF to the validation routine are not described in the available sources.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attacker-supplied PDF reaches validation with no auth or interaction (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N); only integrity is broken as forged content is trusted (I:H, C:N/A:N).
Primary rating from Vendor (ProgressSoftware).
CVSS VectorVendor: ProgressSoftware
Lifecycle Timeline
2DescriptionCVE.org
In Progress® Telerik® Document Processing Libraries prior to version 2026.3.1027, improper verification of cryptographic signatures and improper certificate validation in RadPdfProcessing digital signature validation allow an unauthenticated attacker to cause signature validation to report forged content as unmodified and its signing certificate as valid via a crafted signed PDF document.
Executive ViewAI
A high-severity flaw in Progress Telerik Document Processing Libraries' RadPdfProcessing component allows forged PDF signatures to be falsely validated by vulnerable versions before 2026.3.1027. This undermines trust in digital signatures for any internal application relying on the library for PDF verification, potentially enabling fraudulent documents to bypass integrity checks.
No vendor-released patch identified at time of analysis. Interim mitigations include: strictly limiting use of RadPdfProcessing for signature verification to low-risk scenarios; implementing independent certificate validation and content integrity checks (e.g., using a separate trusted library); and manually reviewing any PDF signatures used for financial, legal, or access-control decisions.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
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EUVD-2026-112036
GHSA-wr2c-qfj2-22f2
NVD
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