CVE-2026-91798
A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the update daemon of Foxit PDF Editor/Reader due to an insecure permission configuration that allows the configuration file to be modified by regular users, which may lead to arbitrary script execution with higher privileges.
- CVSS 3.1
- 8.8
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 4% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-28)
- CWE
- CWE-732
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- foxit:pdf_editor
- foxit:pdf_reader