CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-91803

7.8 HIGH Published 2026-09-23 Modified 2026-10-08 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-09-23
Last modified
2026-10-08
Assigner
14984358-7092-470d-8f34-ade47a7658a2
CVSS 3.1 (14984358-7092-470d-8f34-ade47a7658a2)
8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-427

Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the updater of Foxit PDF Editor/Reader due to unsafe loading of dynamic-link libraries from a user-writable directory during high-privilege operations. A local attacker could exploit this issue to execute code with elevated privileges.

Affected configurations

• foxit pdf editor (<= 13.2.5.63482) • foxit pdf editor (>= 14.0.0.33046 <= 14.0.7.33751) • foxit pdf editor (>= 2023.1.0.15510 <= 2023.3.0.23028) • foxit pdf editor (>= 2024.1.0.23997 <= 2024.4.1.27687) • foxit pdf editor (>= 2025.1.0.27937 <= 2025.3.0.35737) • foxit pdf editor (>= 2026.1.0.36452 <= 2026.2.0.39747) • foxit pdf reader (<= 2026.2.0.39747)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-427 Uncontrolled Search Path Element weakness

References