Privilege escalation

2019-07-0814:15:00

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7.7 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

20.2%

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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.