CVE-2026-91796: Foxit PDF Editor/Reader importIcon NTLM Response Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2026-09-23 · updated 2026-10-08
Weakness: CWE-693

Description

The interface of Foxit PDF Editor/Reader lacks the permission verification for secure reading mode, which allows specially crafted PDFs to trigger external SMB authentication without any security prompts and thereby leak the hash of the user's credentials.

Affected products

Foxit PDF Reader: through 13.2.5.63482; from 14.0.0.33046 through 14.0.7.33751; 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; from 2026.1.0.36452 through 2026.2.0.39747
Foxit Pdf Reader: through 2026.2.0.39747

References

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

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