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

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...

CVE-2026-3780

CVE-2026-3780 concerns Foxit PDF Editor/Reader installers on Windows. The root cause is an installer that runs with elevated privileges while resolving system executables and DLLs using untrusted search paths that may include user-writable directories. This allows a local attacker to place malici...