Security Advisory

CVE-2019-12174

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-07-08 13:03:17
Last updated 2024-08-04 23:10:30
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.