CVE-2026-91800

published 2026-09-23

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…

Priority P3 50 high 8.8 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L UI N S C C H I H A H

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.

Affected

9 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
foxit	pdf_editor	<= 13.2.6.63484	—
foxit	pdf_editor	14.0.0.68868 – 14.0.7.69441	—
foxit	pdf_editor	2023.1.0.55583 – 2023.3.0.63083	—
foxit	pdf_editor	2024.1.0.63682 – 2024.4.1.66479	—
foxit	pdf_editor	2025.1.0.66692 – 2025.3.0.69570	—
foxit	pdf_editor	2026.1.0.70169 – 2026.2.0.72029	—
foxit	pdf_reader	<= 2026.2.0.72029	—
foxit_software_inc	foxit_pdf_editor	—	—
foxit_software_inc	foxit_pdf_editor	—	—

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