CVE-2019-12573

A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Client v82 for Linux and macOS could allow an authenticated, local attacker to…

published July 11, 2019

CVSS
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EPSS
1%
Percentile
47.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Client v82 for Linux and macOS could allow an authenticated, local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files. The openvpn_launcher binary is setuid root. This binary supports the --log option, which accepts a path as an argument. This parameter is not sanitized, which allows a local unprivileged user to overwrite arbitrary files owned by any user on the system, including root. This creates a denial of service condition and possible data loss if leveraged by a malicious local user.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00582 · 47.1th percentile
Published
2019-07-11T19:31Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 JUL 19:31Z
    A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Client v82 for Linux and macOS could allow an authenticated, local attacker to…
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