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.
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| https://www.foxit.com/support/security-bulletins.html |
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Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:45:00 +0000
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Foxit PDF Editor installer local privilege escalation | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-732 | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: Foxit
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-23T07:50:47.984Z
Reserved: 2026-09-15T07:34:43.392Z
Link: CVE-2026-91800
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-23T08:17:12.023
Modified: 2026-09-23T08:17:12.023
Link: CVE-2026-91800
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