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.
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| https://www.foxit.com/support/security-bulletins.html |
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| CPEs | cpe:2.3:a:foxit:pdf_editor:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:foxit:pdf_reader:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:o:microsoft:windows:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Security Vulnerability Report – Foxit PDF Editor/Reader Updater DLL Search Path Hijacking | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-427 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Foxit
Published: 2026-09-23T07:50:13.432Z
Updated: 2026-09-23T14:40:38.742Z
Reserved: 2026-09-15T07:34:43.393Z
Link: CVE-2026-91803
Updated: 2026-09-23T14:40:36.277Z
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2026-09-23T08:17:12.363
Modified: 2026-10-08T14:05:19.910
Link: CVE-2026-91803
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