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CVE-2026-91800

HIGHCVSS 8.8
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Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the installer of Foxit PDF Editor for macOS due to insufficient validation of a user-modifiable configuration value during high-privilege upgrades. A local attacker could exploit this issue to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges.

Timeline
Published:September 23rd, 2026 8:17 AM
Last modified:October 15th, 2026 3:06 PM
CVSS Scoring

CVSS v3: 8.8 (HIGH)

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Software
From NVD CPE configuration data

Vendors

foxit

Products

pdf_editorpdf_reader
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-732
References & Reports
Advisories, patches, and third-party reports

Source: NIST NVD · Data may lag official sources by up to one minute