CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-12573
7.1 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-07-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
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.
Affected configurations
• londontrustmedia private internet access vpn client 82
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- https://github.com/mirchr/security-research/blob/master/vulnerabilities/PIA/CVE-2019-12573.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mirchr/security-research/blob/master/vulnerabilities/PIA/CVE-2019-12573.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory