Privilege Escalation Vulnerability in hide.me macOS VPN Helper Tool

CVE-2019-12174 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

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.

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