High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Oct 9, 2024· Updated Apr 15, 2026

CVE-2024-35288

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.

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Affected products

Nitro/Prollm-fuzzy
Range: <13.70.8.82, >=14.0 <14.26.1.0

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Sep/59nvd
sec-consult.com/vulnerability-lab/advisory/local-privilege-escalation-via-msi-installer-in-nitro-pdf-pro/nvd
seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Sep/59nvd
www.gonitro.com/support/downloadsnvd

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