Description
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.
Published: 2019-07-08
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-3823 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.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T23:10:30.818Z

Reserved: 2019-05-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-12174

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Status : Modified

Published: 2019-07-08T14:15:10.287

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:22:22.210

Link: CVE-2019-12174

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