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CVE-2019-18958

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-11-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-732

Description

Nitro Pro before 13.2 creates a debug.log file in the directory where a .pdf file is located, if the .pdf document was produced by an OCR operation on the JPEG output of a scanner. Reportedly, this can have a security risk if debug.log is later edited and then executed.

Affected products

• Nitro Pro: before 13.2 — fixed in 13.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Nitro Pro 13.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://a-man-in-the-cookie.blogspot.com/2019/11/nitro-pro-vulnerability.html
• https://a-man-in-the-cookie.blogspot.com/2019/11/nitro-pro-vulnerability.html

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