CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-12174

7.8 HIGH Published 2019-07-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-07-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-306

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.

Affected configurations

• hide hide.me (< 2.4.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-306 Missing Authentication for Critical Functionality weakness

References