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CVE-2019-12174 (GCVE-0-2019-12174)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-07-08 13:03 – Updated: 2024-08-04 23:10
VLAI
Summary
hide.me before 2.4.4 on macOS suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerability in the connectWithExecutablePath:configFilePath:configFileName method of the me_hide_vpnhelper.Helper class in the me.hide.vpnhelper macOS privilege helper tool. This method takes user-supplied input and can be used to escalate privileges, as well as obtain the ability to run any application on the system in the root context.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
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