A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the update daemon of Foxit PDF Editor/Reader due to an insecure permission configuration that allows the configuration file to be modified by regu…

High CVSS 8.8

CVECVE-2026-91798

First seen2026-09-23 08:31 UTC

Disclosed2026-09-23 08:17 UTC

Last updated2026-09-23 08:31 UTC

Channel statusauto

Summary

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the update daemon of Foxit PDF Editor/Reader due to an insecure permission configuration that allows the configuration file to be modified by regular users, which may lead to arbitrary script execution with higher privileges.

In-depth triage

No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).

Sources

NVD DATABASE

Original Links

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

Timeline

2026-09-23 nvd_ingest NVD