CVE-2019-12577

High

Description

A vulnerability in the London Trust Media Private Internet Access (PIA) VPN Client v82 for macOS could allow an authenticated, local attacker to run arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The macOS binary openvpn_launcher.64 is setuid root. This binary creates /tmp/pia_upscript.sh when executed. Because the file creation mask (umask) is not reset, the umask value is inherited from the calling process. This value can be manipulated to cause the privileged binary to create files with world writable permissions. A local unprivileged user can modify /tmp/pia_upscript.sh during the connect process to execute arbitrary code as the root user.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.8
Exploit probability—
ProductLondontrustmedia Private Internet Access Vpn Client
PublishedJul 11, 2019
First seenJul 11, 2019

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
londontrustmedia private_internet_access_vpn_client82—

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