CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-5012

7.8 HIGH Published 2019-10-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-10-24
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-88

Description

An exploitable privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the Wacom, driver version 6.3.32-3, update helper service in the startProcess command. The command takes a user-supplied script argument and executes it under root context. A user with local access can use this vulnerability to raise their privileges to root. An attacker would need local access to the machine for a successful exploit.

Affected configurations

• wacom driver 6.3.32-3

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command weakness

References