CVE-2019-12573

Published Jul 11, 2019

Last updated 3 years ago

Overview

Description
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.
Source
cve@mitre.org
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

Type
Primary
Base score
7.1
Impact score
5.2
Exploitability score
1.8
Vector string
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6.6
Impact score
9.2
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-59

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations