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
- https://www.foxit.com/support/security-bulletins.html Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 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
- https://www.foxit.com/support/security-bulletins.html Vendor Advisory