CVE-2026-91818: Foxit PDF Editor/Reader Annotation Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 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: 2026-09-23 · updated 2026-10-08
Weakness: CWE-416

Description

A use-after-free vulnerability exists in Foxit PDF Editor/Reader’s JavaScript handling of PDF annotations. Reentrant page-event processing during annotation enumeration may release the associated page object, which is subsequently accessed, resulting in an application crash.

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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