BaselineWatch
Desk

CVE-2026-91803

7.8 high SSVC exploitation: none Analyzed

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.

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 7.8 · foxitNVD modified 2026-10-08 14:05

Affected (CPE criteria) 2

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

References 1