CVE-2019-12174

hide.me before 2.4.4 on macOS suffers from a privilege escalation vulnerability in the connectWithExecutablePath:configFilePath:configFileName method of the me_hide_vpnhelper.Helper class in the me.hide.vpnhelper macOS privilege helper tool. This method takes user-supplied input and can be used to escalate privileges, as well as obtain the ability to run any application on the system in the root context.

CVSS v3.0

7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 36th percentile

Published

2019-07-08

Updated

2024-08-04

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TwbjmE45gnWeYpFyH8kDU63P7u4IdPd2

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2019-12173
• CVE-2019-1218
• CVE-2019-12172
• CVE-2019-12180
• CVE-2019-12171
• CVE-2019-12181