CVE-2026-5939

medium

Published 2026-04-27 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

5.5

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.5

Description

A crafted XFA PDF can trigger a use-after-free condition during calculate event processing, causing the application to crash and resulting in an arbitrary code execution.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

55%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
foxit	pdf_editor	`{"startIncluding":"14.0.0","endExcluding":"14.0.4"}`	`14.0.4`
foxit	pdf_reader	`{"endExcluding":"2026.1.1"}`	`2026.1.1`

References

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

CWEs

CWE-416

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.