CVE-2019-5012CWE-88
An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Wacom, driver version 6.3.32-3, update helper service in the startProcess command
High · published October 24, 2019
What it is
An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Wacom, driver version 6.3.32-3, update helper service in the startProcess command. The command takes a user-supplied script argument and executes it under root context. A user with local access can use this vulnerability to raise their privileges to root. An attacker would need local access to the machine for a successful exploit.
The record
Technical detail
- CVSS v3.0
- 7.8 · HIGH
- Vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v4.0
- Not supplied
- EPSS
- 0.00530 · 44.0th percentile
- Weakness
- CWE-88 · Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')
- Published
- 2019-10-24T15:17Z
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