What is GHSA-c38v-9c8x-3hf6?

GHSA-c38v-9c8x-3hf6 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the update daemon of Foxit PDF Editor/Reader...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-c38v-9c8x-3hf6 cover?

GHSA-c38v-9c8x-3hf6 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-91798. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-c38v-9c8x-3hf6?

GHSA-c38v-9c8x-3hf6 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-c38v-9c8x-3hf6HighCVSS 8.8

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the update daemon of Foxit PDF Editor/Reader...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 23, 2026

Last Modified

September 23, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-91798 →

📋 Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the update daemon of Foxit PDF Editor/Reader due to an insecure permission configuration that allows the configuration file to be modified by regular users, which may lead to arbitrary script execution with higher privileges.

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-91798
https://www.foxit.com/support/security-bulletins.html
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-c38v-9c8x-3hf6