VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2019-12174

CVSS score7.8 HIGH
EPSS probability0.43%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2019-07-08
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-306: Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Primary references