CVE-2024-35288

7.8 highEPSS 0.3%

High (7.8). EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Nitro PDF Pro before 13.70.8.82 and 14.x before 14.26.1.0 allows Local Privilege Escalation in the MSI Installer because custom actions occur unsafely in repair mode. CertUtil is run in a conhost.exe window, and there is a mechanism allowing CTRL+o to launch cmd.exe as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

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

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 17% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
Published: 2024-10-09
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://sec-consult.com/vulnerability-lab/advisory/local-privilege-escalation-via-msi-installer-in-nitro-pdf-pro/
https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Sep/59
https://www.gonitro.com/support/downloads#securityUpdates
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Sep/59

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