MajorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-91800 (CVSS 8.8)

NVD · officialPublished Sep 23, 2026Risk 37/100EPSS 0.1%

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.

Technical details

CVSS

8.8

AV:LocalAC:LowPR:LowUI:NoneC:HighI:HighA:High

Evidence and sources

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