What is GHSA-3jfq-gmmh-mj79?

GHSA-3jfq-gmmh-mj79 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the installer of Foxit PDF Editor for macOS...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-3jfq-gmmh-mj79 cover?

GHSA-3jfq-gmmh-mj79 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-91800. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-3jfq-gmmh-mj79?

GHSA-3jfq-gmmh-mj79 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-3jfq-gmmh-mj79HighCVSS 8.8

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the installer of Foxit PDF Editor for macOS...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 23, 2026

Last Modified

September 23, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-91800 →

📋 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.

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-91800
https://www.foxit.com/support/security-bulletins.html
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3jfq-gmmh-mj79