CVE-2026-91796 (GCVE-0-2026-91796)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-23 07:51
Modified
2026-09-23 14:46
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-693 - ：Protection Mechanism Failure
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Foxit Software Inc. Foxit PDF Editor Version: Versions 2026.2 and earlier
Version: Versions 14.0.7 and earlier
Version: Versions 13.2.6 and earlier
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