What is GHSA-hh85-f5h8-q4pf?

GHSA-hh85-f5h8-q4pf is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the updater of Foxit PDF Editor/Reader due...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-hh85-f5h8-q4pf cover?

GHSA-hh85-f5h8-q4pf covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-91803. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-hh85-f5h8-q4pf?

GHSA-hh85-f5h8-q4pf has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-hh85-f5h8-q4pfHighCVSS 8.8

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the updater of Foxit PDF Editor/Reader due...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 23, 2026

Last Modified

September 23, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-91803 →

📋 Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the updater of Foxit PDF Editor/Reader due to unsafe loading of dynamic-link libraries from a user-writable directory during high-privilege operations. A local attacker could exploit this issue to execute code with elevated privileges.

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-91803
https://www.foxit.com/support/security-bulletins.html
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hh85-f5h8-q4pf