CVE-2024-7062: Mikekazakov Nimble Commander

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Nimble Commander suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerability due to the server (info.filesmanager.Files.PrivilegedIOHelperV2) performing improper/insufficient validation of a client’s authorization before executing an operation. Consequently, it is possible to execute system-level commands as the root user, such as changing permissions and ownership, obtaining a handle (file descriptor) of an arbitrary file, and terminating processes, among other operations.

Affected products

• Mikekazakov Nimble Commander: before 1.6.1 (fixed in 1.6.1)

Published 2024-07-26. Last modified 2026-06-17.