CVE-2026-91803

HIGHCVSS 8.8

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.

Timeline

Published:September 23rd, 2026 8:17 AM

Last modified:September 23rd, 2026 5:58 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

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-427

References & Reports

Advisories, patches, and third-party reports

https://www.foxit.com/support/security-bulletins.html

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