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CVE-2024-7062: Local Privilege Escalation in Nimble Commander <= v1.6.0, Build 4087

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-07-26 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-863

Description

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

• Nimble Commander: before 1.6.1 — fixed in 1.6.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Nimble Commander 1.6.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://pentraze.com/vulnerability-reports/CVE-2024-7062/
• https://pentraze.com/vulnerability-reports/CVE-2024-7062/

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