CVSS 3.1
8.2 highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2024-29072
High (8.2) in foxit. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Foxit Reader 2024.2.0.25138. The vulnerability occurs due to improper certification validation of the updater executable before executing it. A low privilege user can trigger the update action which can result in unexpected elevation of privilege.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 40% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-295
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- foxit:pdf_editor
- foxit:pdf_reader