High severity · published Jul 11, 2019
CVE-2019-12573
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…
7.1
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 48% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PI
Private Internet Access Vpn Client · Londontrustmedia
82 · source: NVD
Affected product
PI
Private Internet Access Vpn Client
Londontrustmedia
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12573
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12573
Exploit
https://github.com/mirchr/security-research/blob/master/vulnerabilities/PIA/CVE-2019-12573.txt
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