CVE-2026-91803

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.

  • Published Sep 23, 2026
  • CVSS 8.8 high
  • 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)

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CVE-2026-91803 at the National Vulnerability Database