High severity · published Jul 11, 2019
CVE-2019-12579
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 run arbitrary code with…
7.8
CVSS
0.8%
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 run arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The PIA Linux/macOS binary openvpn_launcher.64 binary is setuid root. This binary accepts several parameters to update the system configuration. These parameters are passed to operating system commands using a "here" document. The parameters are not sanitized, which allow for arbitrary commands to be injected using shell metacharacters. A local unprivileged user can pass special crafted parameters that will be interpolated by the operating system calls.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.8% · higher than 57% 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-2019-12579
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12579
Exploit
https://github.com/mirchr/security-research/blob/master/vulnerabilities/PIA/CVE-2019-12579.txt
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