CVE-2026-91800

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 8.8 High

Status

Analyzed - 14984358-7092-470d-8f34-ade47a7658a2

Published

2026-09-23

Last modified

2026-10-15

Weaknesses

CWE-732

Affected products

• Pdf Editor (Foxit)
• Pdf Reader (Foxit)
• Foxit Pdf Editor (Foxit Software Inc.)

References

• https://www.foxit.com/support/security-bulletins.html