CVE-2024-35288: Gonitro Nitro PDF Pro

High severity, CVSS 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.

Affected products

• Gonitro Nitro PDF Pro: before 13.70.8.82 (fixed in 13.70.8.82); from 14.0, before 14.26.1.0 (fixed in 14.26.1.0)

Published 2024-10-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.