CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-12574

7.8 HIGH Published 2019-07-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-07-11
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-426

Description

A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Client v1.0 for Windows could allow an authenticated, local attacker to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The PIA client is vulnerable to a DLL injection vulnerability during the software update process. The updater loads several libraries from a folder that authenticated users have write access to. A low privileged user can leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code as SYSTEM.

Affected configurations

• londontrustmedia private internet access vpn client 1.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness

References