Foxit PDF reader has been discovered with a new privilege escalation vulnerability that allows a low-privileged user to escalate their privileges. This vulnerability has been assigned with CVE-2024-29072 and the severity has been given as 8.2 (High).
This vulnerability affects multiple versions of the Foxit PDF reader for Windows. Foxit has fixed it, and a necessary security advisory has been published.
https://cybersecuritynews.com/foxit-pdf ... itor-flaw/