CVE-2026-3780: Foxit PDF Editor/Reader Installer Uncontrolled Search Path Privilege Escalation

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-04-01 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-426

Description

The application's installer runs with elevated privileges but resolves system executables and DLLs using untrusted search paths that can include user-writable directories, allowing a local attacker to place malicious binaries with the same names and have them loaded or executed instead of the legitimate system files, resulting in local privilege escalation.

Affected products

Foxit PDF Reader: through 13.2.2.24014; from 14.0.0.33046 through 14.0.2.33402; from 2023.1.0.15510 through 2023.3.0.23028; from 2024.1.0.23997 through 2024.4.1.27687; from 2025.1.0.27937 through 2025.3.0.35737
Foxit Pdf Reader: through 2025.3.0.35737

References

https://www.foxit.com/support/security-bulletins.html

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