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    CVE-2026-91796

    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.

    Published:Sep 23, 2026
    Last Modified:Oct 8, 2026
    EPS:Sep 23, 2026
    EPSS Score:0.00121
    CVSS Score:6.1

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Foxit
    Product
    Pdf Editor
    Vendor
    Foxit
    Product
    Pdf Reader
    Vendor
    Foxitsoftware
    Product
    Foxit Pdf Editor
    Vendor
    Foxitsoftware
    Product
    Foxit Reader
    Vendor
    Microsoft
    Product
    Windows

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-693 Protection Mechanism Failure

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-1 Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs
    CAPEC-107 Cross Site Tracing
    CAPEC-127 Directory Indexing
    CAPEC-17 Using Malicious Files
    CAPEC-20 Encryption Brute Forcing
    CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client
    CAPEC-237 Escaping a Sandbox by Calling Code in Another Language
    CAPEC-36 Using Unpublished Interfaces or Functionality
    CAPEC-477 Signature Spoofing by Mixing Signed and Unsigned Content
    CAPEC-480 Escaping Virtualization
    CAPEC-51 Poison Web Service Registry
    CAPEC-57 Utilizing REST's Trust in the System Resource to Obtain Sensitive Data
    CAPEC-59 Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
    CAPEC-65 Sniff Application Code
    CAPEC-668 Key Negotiation of Bluetooth Attack (KNOB)
    CAPEC-74 Manipulating State
    CAPEC-87 Forceful Browsing

    Related CVEs

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    CVE-2026-91790 (CVSS 7.8) — When rendering the page image, Foxit PDF Editor/Reader fails to perform validation on image objects whose opti…
    CVE-2026-91791 (CVSS 7.8) — When processing a specially crafted PDF file, Foxit PDF Editor/Reader may encounter a reentrant execution cond…
    CVE-2026-91792 (CVSS 7.8) — When processing a specially crafted PDF, Foxit PDF Editor/Reader may perform reentrant zoom and layout operati…
    CVE-2026-91793 (CVSS 7.8) — When opening a specially crafted PDF, Foxit PDF Editor/Reader executes scripts that modify annotation rich-tex…
    CVE-2026-91794 (CVSS 7.8) — An out-of-bounds write vulnerability exists in the PDF rendering process of Foxit PDF Editor/Reader due to ins…
    CVE-2026-91795 (CVSS 7.8) — Foxit PDF Editor/Reader's FileOpen plugin did not adequately validate certain encryption metadata in specially…
    CVE-2026-91797 (CVSS 7.8) — Foxit PDF Editor/Reader failed to validate the directory traversal path in the attachment file name, resulting…
    CVE-2026-91799 (CVSS 7.8) — A use-after-free vulnerability exists in Foxit PDF Editor/Reader’s handling of JavaScript array objects. A spe…
    CVE-2026-91805 (CVSS 7.8) — A use-after-free vulnerability exists in Foxit PDF Editor/Reader’s PDF page-tree handling. A specially crafted…

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High