MinorCritical vulnerability

CVE-2026-91816 (CVSS 7.8)

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

A use-after-free vulnerability exists in Foxit PDF Editor/Reader’s handling of PDF annotations. Reentrant annotation deletion triggered by embedded JavaScript can cause the application to access an annotation object after it has been released, resulting in a use-after-free condition and application crash.

Technical details

CVSS

7.8

AV:LocalAC:LowPR:NoneUI:RequiredC:HighI:HighA:High

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