CVE-2026-91800

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Foxit Software Inc.Foxit PDF EditorVersions 2026.2 and earlieraffected
Foxit Software Inc.Foxit PDF EditorVersions 14.0.7 and earlieraffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-732: CWE-732: Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References