Quick answers
- Is CVE-2026-92180 exploited in the wild?
- No. Junglewise Threat Intelligence has no report of CVE-2026-92180 being exploited in the wild.
- How severe is CVE-2026-92180?
- High severity, with a CVSS score of 7.8, published 15 September 2026.
- Which products and versions are affected?
- pdfforge PDF Architect.
- Is there a fix for CVE-2026-92180?
- No fixed version is recorded yet. Check the vendor's advisory in the references below. If you run it, Junglewise drafts a mitigation that fits your setup and applies it once you approve, with senior security engineers behind it.
- How is CVE-2026-92180 attacked?
- It is attacked with local access.
- Am I affected by CVE-2026-92180?
- Check whether you run Pdfforge PDF Architect. Junglewise does that check for you around the clock: connect your code, cloud and domains, and it matches new vulnerabilities like this one against what you actually run and tells you when one reaches you.
Technical details
This vulnerability is a local privilege escalation (LPE) in the activation-service component of PDF Architect, caused by an uncontrolled search path element—the service loads a library from an unsecured or predictable location on the filesystem. An attacker with low-privileged code execution on the target system can exploit this by placing a malicious library in the search path, which will be loaded and executed in the SYSTEM context when the activation-service runs. No network access or user interaction is required beyond initial code execution. Exploitation results in full system compromise. The vulnerability was disclosed on 2026-08-31 after a coordinated disclosure process.
Affected products
- pdfforge PDF Architect
Timeline
- 2026-03-31: disclosed: Vulnerability reported to vendor
- 2026-08-31: advisory: Coordinated public release of advisory (ZDI-26-615)