CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-35288
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2024-10-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
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.
References
- https://sec-consult.com/vulnerability-lab/advisory/local-privilege-escalation-via-msi-installer-in-nitro-pdf-pro/ sec-consult.com
- https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Sep/59 seclists.org
- https://www.gonitro.com/support/downloads#securityUpdates www.gonitro.com
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Sep/59 seclists.org