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CVE-2026-91800

8.8 high SSVC exploitation: none Analyzed

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.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 8.8 · foxitNVD modified 2026-10-15 15:06

Affected (CPE criteria) 2

  • cpe:2.3:a:foxit:pdf_editor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • cpe:2.3:a:foxit:pdf_reader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 1