CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4284
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-01-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Description
A Privilege Escalation vulnerability exists in Viscosity 1.4.1 on Mac OS X due to a path name validation issue in the setuid-set ViscosityHelper binary, which could let a remote malicious user execute arbitrary code
Affected configurations
• sparklabs viscosity 1.4.1
References
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24579 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55002 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/120643/Viscosity-setuid-set-ViscosityHelper-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/releasenotes/mac/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/24579 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55002 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/120643/Viscosity-setuid-set-ViscosityHelper-Privilege-Escalation.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.sparklabs.com/viscosity/releasenotes/mac/ Release Notes, Vendor Advisory